FIGURATIVE

LANGUAGE
  1. My stallion is as black as the night.
 2. He wolfed down his food in a hurry.
 3. He uncoiled himself from the sofa like a snake after a long sleep.

Identify  4. The horse’s quick legs are flashes of lightning.

 5. The soldiers flew down the streets like a swarm of bees.
whether its’s a  6. The violin sobbed a wailed a love story in the music.
simile or  7. the science room is a beehive of activities.
metaphor.  8. her lips were as red as apples.
 9. the sailboat was a sea gull bobbing on the waves.
 10. the clouds are as huge as dinosaurs.
 Reference: All Around English 6 pp.29-30
 11. The dark clouds looked like a grieving woman’s dark veil.
 12. The room was a beehive of busy people.
 13. His problems were mountains that must be climbed.
 14. I wandered lonely as a cloud.
 15. He is a fish out of water.
  Write if it is simile,metaphor,personification or hyperbole.
READ THESE  1. The ball , like a bullet, hit me.
SENTENCES  2.The leaves swayed from left to right.
CAREFULLY.  3. The star is a dancer.
IDENTIFY  4. The North wind swings his whistling whip.

WHICH  5. It froze clean down to China.

 6. I will love you until the rivers run dry.
FIGURATIVE
 7. Love , keep shining down on me.
LANGUAGE IS  8. The wind whispered secrets of better days.
USED IN EACH  9. He guards like a leech.
SENTENCE.  10. The traffic jam was a sea of metal.
  11. The fat comedian is a plump as a pillow.
 12. The birds seem to wink at me.
 13. Truly, he has a heart of gold.
 14. His wife dances like a fairy in the woodland.
Figurative  15. The leaves dance when the wind blows.
language

 Reference: English for You and Me Reading pp. 51-52

  1. simile 13. metaphor
 2. metaphor 14. simile
 3. personification/metaphor 15. personification
 4. personification
 5. hyperbole

Key to  6. hyperbole
 7. metaphor
correction
 8. personification
 9. simile
 10. hyperbole
 11. simile
 12. personification
  1. The English language is like a bank account of a million words.
 2. The dictionary is the bankbook that helps us use the words.
 3. The flowers danced happily with the wind.
Identify what  4. The sleeping earth groaned and turned over on its side causing
buildings to tremble and fall.
figurative  5. The brain is like a gigantic government office.
language used in  6. Each nerve cell in the brain is a clerk receiving coded messages
each sentence. and sending them to the proper sends organs.

Simile,metaphor  7. The leaves whisper their secrets to one another as the wind
passes by.
,personification  8. Her brother was a tower of strength during those trying times.
 9. the watching lambs along the coasts shine wanly on the foam.
 10. “Silently,like tired ghosts. The fishing fleet came home.”
  1. an army of fleas attacked our dogs.
 2. her life is a three-ring circus.
 3. The old bridge groaned once in a while as it sunned itself.
 4. Tongues of fire lapped at the abandoned building.
Explain the  5.The wind snarled and bared its teeth.
comparisons in  6. the airplanes were swallowed by the thick fog.
the following  7. The contortionist had a body of rubber.
metaphors.  8. His car eats vast quantities of gas.
 9. The sun was an orange balloon that drifted to earth and
disappeared behind the row of dark trees.
 10.To enter the museum was to enter a time machine set
thousands of years ago.
  1. the city’s voice itself is soft like solitude.
 2. Mother is washing a mountain of dishes.
Tell whether  3. When I lost my wallet, he said, “this is my lucky day.”
the given  4. I appreciate your reading of my personal diary.
sentence  5. He’s such a poor fellow ,he could eat dirt.
below is  6. he’s so hungry that he could eat a horse.

Alliteration,Hy  7. Marie is so kind that nobody befriends her.

perbole or  8. I really enjoy her company but I cant go with her anymore.
 9. The lady’s dear diary was lost in the rain.
Irony.  10. My tears has torn my mother’s heart.
 Reference:English for all times reading pp. 146-147
  1. the moon rose from its sleep.
Identify the  2. The princess is lovely as a rose.
figurative  3. The wings flapped and flapped.
language used  4. I could kill you for tickling me.
in each  5. you’re an angel sent from heaven.

expression as  6. the strange animal is as big as elephant.

simile,metapho  7. the race car zoomed off.

 8. he’s a devil in disguise.
r,personificatio
 9. My two legs are sleeping.
n, hyperbole or  10. Oh,my I swallowed a horse!
onomatopoeia.
 11. The airplane looks like a giant bird.
 12. the waves are dancing.
 13. You scared the hell out of me.
 14. The clock ticked and ticked.
 15. She is my lucky star.
 16. The sun is smiling today.
 17. You are as slow as a turtle.
 18. I hear the hoot,hoot,hoot of the owl.
 19. He has the world on his shoulder.
 20. Annie is the darling of the class.
 Reference: Growing in English 6 (reading) pp 217-219
Study the
poem below
and identify
the figurative
languages
used.
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Identify the
two unlike
objects being
compared.

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