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SIMILE - METAPHOR - TENOR - VEHICLE - HYPERBOLE - UNDERSTATEMENT
PERSONIFICATION - ALLITERATION - ALLEGORY
Determine what figurative language is occurring within the following examples.
If the example is a simile or metaphor, then record the tenor and vehicle.

Paul fights like a lion.
Simile Metaphor Tenor Paul Vehicle lion

1 Personification

Alliteration
What is being personified?

What words are alliterated?
What human quality is it given?

Understatement What is being understated?

Hyperbole What is being exaggerated?

Then up and spake an old sailor,
Had sailed to the Spanish Main,
"I pray thee, put into yonder port,
For I fear a hurricane."

2
Simile Metaphor Tenor What is the literal element? Vehicle What is it being compared to?

Personification What is being personified? What human quality is it given?

Alliteration spake sailor sailed pray put port



Her eye of ice continued to dwell freezingly on mine.
Simile Metaphor Tenor eye Vehicle ice

3
Personification eye the ability to dwell

Alliteration What words are alliterated?



He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls

4




0 Time, thou must untangle this, not I; It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

5




The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

6





He was eager to help but his legs were rubber.

7




An Army officer has just lost his leg. When asked how he feels, he looks down at his bloody

stump and responds, "Stings a bit."

8





"I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain."


9




My teacher is so old, he personally knew Shakespeare.


10 Personification

Alliteration




Just as the clouds sailed over the sky, I left my home behind.

11




"Life is an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."

12




"She sells sea shells by the seashore."


13 Personification

Alliteration




Her fingers felt like a dead person's, like an old peach I once
found in the back of the refrigerator.


14 Personification What is being personified? What human quality is it given?




"Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul-


15 Alliteration

Understatement

What is being understated?


A cold stormy rain set in, and nothing of July appeared but in the trees and shrubs,
which the wind was stealing.


16 Personification

Alliteration




She'd come again, and with a greedy ear to devour up my secrets.


17 Personification

Alliteration




There is no world without the city walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself.

Simile Metaphor Tenor What is the literal element?

18
Vehicle What is it being compared to?





"I think of you a million times a day"


19 Alliteration

Understatement

What is being understated?


A captain of an airplane said to the passengers, "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your
captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped."


20 Personification

Alliteration




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