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Identify what type of figurative language is being used in each sentence. Justify your answer. (Some of the sentences have no figurative language at all, so stay on your toes!) 1. The swans were graceful as ballerinas. What type of language? Personification, Hyperbole, Metaphor, Idiom, Simile, or Literal? Justify your answer. 2.
Find 10+ worksheets to practice identifying and explaining figurative language techniques in poems, stories, and plays. Test your knowledge with online games and activities based on Orpheus, Poetry Cat, and Shakespeare.
Download and print worksheets to practice identifying and using figurative language in sentences and poems. Learn the definitions, examples, and effects of metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, and more.
Practice identifying and labeling seven types of figures of speech, such as idioms, similes, metaphors, and hyperboles. Fill in the blanks with the correct figure of speech for each statement and check your answers at the end of the worksheet.
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Draw a picture to illustrate the literal meaning (what the words really mean) and draw a picture to illustrate the figurative meaning (what the idiom means). Then use the idiom in a sentence that shows its meaning. Choose an idiom from the list and use them in a sentence below! Choose the idioms that complete the sentences.
Packet for Figurative Language Review Activities Simile and Metaphor Decide whether each sentence contains a simile or a metaphor. If it is a simile, underline the simile in one color and write “simile” after it. If it is a metaphor, underline the metaphor in another color, and write “metaphor” after it. Finally, under each sentence,
