Figurative Language Practice = Language where you must FIGURE Out the meaning 100% Pass

Figurative Language Practice = Language where you must FIGURE Out the meaning 100% Pass They have watered the street, / It shines in the glare of lamps, / Cold, white lamps, And lies / Like a slow-moving river What technique is being used? simile Life is a stream / On which we strew / Petal by petal the flower of our heart; What technique is being used? metaphor The daisy hugging the earth / in August, ha! What technique is being used personification Don't worry about the Alex / She's all bark and no bite. What technique is being used? idiom / metaphor / hyperbole A treasurer of immortal days, / I roam the glorious world giving endless praise, What technique is being used hyperbole The river, curling softly by, / Whispers and dimples round its quiet gray stones. What technique is being used? personification From their sweet feeding in the fruit; / The droning of the bees and flies / Rises gradual as a lute; What technique is being used? simile After getting my report card / I knew it was time to hit the books. What technique is being used? idiom / hyperbole The earth is the cup of the sun, / That filleth at morning What technique is being used? metaphor An old willow with hollow branches / slowly swayed his few high tendrils / and sang: What technique is being used? personification I should have done homework or studied instead / But I got up on the wrong side of the bed. What technique is being used? idiom / metaphor Over the yawning chimney hangs the fog. What technique is being used? personification The smallest sprout shows that there is really no death. What technique is being used? hyperbole Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate. What technique is being used metaphor The lights from the parlor and kitchen shone out / Through the blinds and the windows and bars; And high over head and all moving about, / There were thousands of millions of billions of stars. What technique is being used? hyperbole A trumpet-vine covered an arbour / With the red and gold of its blossoms. Red and gold like the brass notes of trumpets. What technique is being used? simlie Hopeless, there stand the purple jars / Of night to spill oblivion. What technique is being used metaphor Where far remote / The moonbeams gloat What technique is being used? personification I guess that my friends were just pulling my leg. What technique is being used? idiom / metaphor So lightly I played with those dark memories, / Just as a child, beneath the summer skies, Plays hour by hour with a strange shining stone, What technique is being used simile a blessing in disguise. What technique is being used? idiom / personification . Love is a young green willow / shimmering at the bare wood's edge. What technique is being used? metaphor And now May, too, is fled, / The flower-crowned month, the merry laughing May, With rosy feet and fingers dewy wet, What technique is being used? personification Clear was the light of loveliness / That lit her face like rain; What technique is being used? simile The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the / distillation, it is odorless, It is for my mouth forever, I am in love with it, What technique is being used? hyperbole I wanted her to show up / I crossed my fingers. What technique is being used? idiom Here is a list of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE HINTS Similes= Compare using LIKE or AS Metaphors= Compare using IS, WAS, ARE, WERE, DOES NOT use LIKE OR AS Idiom= Expression where you have to FIGURE out the Meaning (the test was A PIECE OF CAKE=Easy) the idiom is "A Piece of Cake" Personification= PERSON/Human Like Qualities to something that is not alive Hyperbole= Extreme Exaggeration Onomatopoeia= Words that make SOUNDS Buzz Clap Boom Alliteration= Almost ALL the Words start with the same letter/ are also tongue twisters "peter piper picked a pickled pepper" etc