Figurative Language Quiz
Quiz by Heather Harlen
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- Q1Life is too much like a pathless woodSimileHyperboleMetaphorPersonification20s
- Q2The needle slept on the broidered vineSimilePersonificationMetaphorHyperbole20s
- Q3Beauty calls and gives no warningPersonificationHyperboleSimileMetaphor20s
- Q4My Soul goes clad in gorgeous things, Scarlet and gold and bluePersonificationHyperboleSimileMetaphor20s
- Q5My heart it was a floating bird That through the world did wander free, But he hath locked it in a cage, And lost the silver key.MetaphorMetaphorSimileHyperbole20s
- Q6A drum pounds out the hymn, That blends with the endless rumble of carts, The scrape of feet, the noise of martsPersonificationHyperboleSimileMetaphor20s
- Q7They only know our love was brief, And passing like an autumn leafSimilePersonificationHyperboleMetaphor20s
- Q8They went like moths into the grass with folded wings.MetaphorSimilePersonificationHyperbole20s
- Q9There the unregulated sun Slopes down to rest when day is done,MetaphorHyperbolePersonificationSimile20s
- Q10A poem is merely a flowering twig of thoughtMetaphorHyperbolePersonificationSimile20s
- Q11In came the moon and covered me with wonder, Touched me and was near me and made me very still.HyperboleMetaphorPersonificationSimile20s
- Q12The white moth is a ghost ship Drifting throughSimileMetaphorPersonificationHyperbole20s
- Q13My thoughts are senseless to mankind As a dream's trouble or the speech of birdsMetaphorPersonificationSimileHyperbole20s
- Q14Day was dying; the poplars fled,PersonificationMetaphorHyperboleSimile20s
- Q15Shining I rise from the waters of sleep.PersonificationHyperboleMetaphorSimile20s