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Directions: Choose only one answer. You are responsible for making clean marks and erasing
your mistakes. Try your best. When you are done, check your answers.
SECTION 1 DEFINITIONS: Match the term with the definition. Shade in the appropriate
bubble.
For questions 1 through 4. Not all of the choices are used.
1. metaphor
2. alliteration
3. simile
4. hyperbole
Answers:
1. E
2. D
3. B
4. A
6. repetition
7. rhyme
8. enjambment
Answers:
5. C
6. D
7. E
8. B
For questions 9 through 12. Not all of the choices are used.
9. personification
10. onomatopoeia
11. imagery
C. giving human traits or abilities to nonhuman things.
12. irony
D. writing that uses the five senses to create "pictures"
E. exaggeration for effect
9. C
10. A
11. D
12. B
SECTION 2 EXAMPLES
Directions: Read the following examples of figurative language. Identify the poetic device that is
most clearly being used. Choose the best answer. Shade in the appropriate bubble on
your Scantron form.
13. O, ride you fast, yet at the last,
Hate faster rides,
a. metaphor
b. personification
e. none of these
c. simile
d. hyperbole
Answer
Personification
Answer Explanation
This is personification because hate is given the ability to ride.
14. A moment since, the office boy,
Invisible as night,
Rested on some dim-curtained shelf
a. metaphor
b. personification
e. none of these
c. simile
d. hyperbole
Answer
Simile
Answer Explanation
This is a simile because the boy is compared to night using the word "as."
15. Would I might mend the tattered fabric of my youth...
a. metaphor
e. none of these
b. personification
c. simile
d. hyperbole
Answer
Metaphor
Answer Explanation
This is a metaphor because the speaker compares his youth to a tattered fabric without using "like"
or "as."
16. Three drowsy poppies brooded by the wall,
Lonely and tall.
a. metaphor
b. personification
e. none of these
c. simile
d. hyperbole
Answer
Personification
Answer Explanation
This is personification because the poppies are given the qualities of loneliness and drowsiness.
They are also give the ability to brood.
17. You need but lift a hand and sigh;
And all men's hearts must beat for you.
a. metaphor
b. personification
e. none of these
c. simile
d. hyperbole
Answer
Hyperbole
Answer Explanation
This is hyperbole because the speaker is exaggerating her beauty. Some men would take little or
no interest in her.
18. The wind and the rain, the wind and the rain
Tinkle and drip, tinkle and drip-- branches drifting apart.
a. metaphor
e. none of these
b. personification
c. simile
d. hyperbole
Answer
None of these
Answer Explanation
This is not an example of figurative language; however, this example does use onomatopoeia,
repetition, and imagery.
19. The burning fire shakes in the night,
c. simile
d. hyperbole
Answer
Personification
Answer Explanation
This is personification because the trees are given the ability to get lost in a dream.
20. My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
a. metaphor
b. personification
e. none of these
c. simile
d. hyperbole
Answer
Simile
Answer Explanation
This is a simile because the speaker compares his or her heart to an apple tree using the word
"like."
21. This is the hardest question that anyone has ever had to answer.
a. metaphor
b. personification
c. simile
e. none of these
d. hyperbole
Answer
Hyperbole
Answer Explanation
This is hyperbole because it is exaggerating the difficulty of the question. There are much harder
questions than that one.
22. The green and greedy seas have drowned
That city's glittering walls and towers,
a. metaphor
b. personification
e. none of these
c. simile
d. hyperbole
Answer
Personification
Answer Explanation
This is personification because the seas are given the quality of greediness and the city's walls and
towers are given the ability to drown.
b. personification
c. simile
d. hyperbole
Answer
Simile
Answer Explanation
This is a simile because his hand is compared to lead using the word "as."
24. Your eyes are a shadowy sea
In the starry darkness of night.
a. metaphor
b. personification
e. none of these
c. simile
d. hyperbole
Answer
Metaphor
Answer Explanation
This is a metaphor because the speaker compares "your" eyes to a shadowy sea without using the
word "like" or "as."
25. The water reflects the reeds.
a. metaphor
e. none of these
b. personification
c. simile
d. hyperbole
Answer
None of these
Answer Explanation
This is not an example of figurative language, though it is an example of visual imagery.
26. She looked across the empty street,
And saw Death softly watching her
In the sunshine pale and sweet.
a. metaphor
b. personification
e. none of these
c. simile
d. hyperbole
Answer
Personification
Answer Explanation
This is personification because death is given the ability to watch her softly. Death is also given
the quality of sweetness.
SECTION 3 WHOLE POEMS: Read the poems and the questions. Choose the BEST answer.
Stupidity
Amy Lowell
Simplicity
By: Emily Dickinson
b. Simplicity
Answer
C
Answer Explanation
Both of these poems have a lot of rhymes.
d. neither of these
b. Simplicity
d. neither of these
Answer
B
Answer Explanation
In Simplicity, the stone is compared to the sun in this line: " independent as the sun." Since the
speaker uses "as" to make the comparison, this is a simile.
30. Which of the above poems uses personification?
a. Stupidity
poems
b. Simplicity
d. neither of these
Answer
C
Answer Explanation
Both of these poems use personification. In Stupidity, the rose is given human characteristics and
abilities, such as standing proudly and wearing garments. In Simplicity, the stone is given human
abilities and qualities such as rambling and as happiness.
31. Which of the above poems uses metaphor?
a. Stupidity
poems
b. Simplicity
d. neither of these
Answer
A
Answer Explanation
Metaphor is used in Stupidity. It Stupidity, the speaker talks of creating a jar of words. In that
example she is comparing her words to a jar. Another example would be when she compares the
petals of the rose to garments. In Simplicity, if one were to interpret the coat on the rock as a
jacket, rather than a coating of mud or grime, one might believe that Simplicity contains a
metaphor too, but this is probably a misinterpretation.
32. In which of the above poems does the speaker use a pleasant or joyful tone?
a. Stupidity
poems
Answer
B
b. Simplicity
d. neither of these
Answer Explanation
The speaker in Simplicity uses a pleasant tone. I know this because the speaker uses words and
phrases like "happy" and "never fears." The speaker in Stupidity uses a mournful or regretful
tone. I know this because the speaker uses words like "grieved."
33. In which of the above poems does the poet repeat a line?
a. Stupidity
poems
b. Simplicity
d. neither of these
Answer
D
Answer Explanation
Neither poet repeats a line in these poems.
Approach of Winter
William Carlos Williams
The Skaters
John Gould Fletcher
b. The Skaters
c. Both of these
d. Neither of these
Answer
C
Answer Explanation
Both of these poems use simile. In Approach of Winter, the speaker compares the leaves to hail
using the word "like." In The Skaters, the speaker compares the sound of the skates to brushing
using the word "like."
b. The Skaters
c. Both of these
d. Neither of these
c. Both of these
d. Neither of these
Answer
D
Answer Explanation
Neither of these poems contain a metaphor.
36. Which of the above poems uses rhyme?
a. Approach of Winter
b. The Skaters
Answer
D
Answer Explanation
Neither of these poems contain any rhymes; however, you can find some nice examples of
consonance.
37. Which of the above poems uses personification?
a. Approach of Winter
b. The Skaters
c. Both of these
d. Neither of these
Answer
A
Answer Explanation
Readers can find a good example of personification in Approach of Winter when the speaker
describes the leaves as refusing to let go.
38. Which of the above poems has more examples of onomatopoeia?
a. Approach of Winter
b. The Skaters
c. Both of these
d. Neither of these
Answer
B
Answer Explanation
Though the word flutter, which is used in Approach of Winter, is onomatopoeic, there are more
onomatopoeic words to be found in The Skaters: grinding, click, skim, and brushing.
39. Which of the above poems uses hyperbole?
a. Approach of Winter
b. The Skaters
c. Both of these
d. Neither of these
Answer
A
Answer Explanation
In Approach of Winter, the salvia leaves at the edge of the garden are described in this way: "like
no leaf that ever was." This is not really a simile, because the leaves are not being compared to
different leaves, they are being compared to the absence of a leaf, or like no leaf that ever was.
This can be interpreted as hyperbole, because the leaves were probably pretty similar to many
other leaves that grow on plants of the same type.
40. Which of the above poems maintains a continuous rhythm?
a. Approach of Winter
b. The Skaters
c. Both of these
Answer
D
Answer Explanation
Neither of these poems maintain a continuous rhythm.
d. Neither of these