The following is an exercise that will help you with the poetry and figures of speech test.Remember to look up the definitions of the words you don't understand.
Identify the following figures of speech:
1. When I kissed her paper cheek ____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
2. When she was here, Li Bo, she was like a bright nickname
on my downtown express
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
3. Suddenly I understand that I am happy.
For months this feeling
has been coming closer, stopping
for short visits, like a timid suitor.
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
4. The wind stood up and gave a shout.
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
5. When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces....
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
6. For a Tear is an Intellectual thing
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
7. "I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night"
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
8. I wandered through each chartered street,
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
9. "Spade! with which Wilkinson hath tilled the lands"
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
10. "Every time I shake, some skinny gal loses her home."
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
11. My prime of youth is but a frost of cares,
My feast of joy is but a dish of pain"
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
12. Alittle rule, a little sway,
A sun beam on a winter's day,
Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave.
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
13. Your eyes are just
like bees, and I
feel like a flower.
___ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
14. As a torn paper might seal up its side,
Or a streak of water stitch itself to silk
And disappear, my wound has been my healing.
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
15 .Ihave gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
16. As the guests arrive at my son's party
they gather in the living room--
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
17. Beauty is but a flower
Which wrinkles will devour;
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
18. "Is there anybody there?" said the Traveler,
knocking on the moonlit door;
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
19. I caught a tremendous fish,
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
20. O wind, rend open the heat,
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
21 Fame is a wayward girl
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
22. Like Gulliver who towed a hundred ships,
I drag you to the shore, my motley lovers,
so artful, all with rapiers at your hips,
and bent on war, so many silly rovers.
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
23. Carnation milk is the best in the land
Here I sit with a can in my hand---
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
24. The Child is father to the Man;
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal
25. Step on the gas.
____ Simile
____ Metaphor
____ Personification
____ Metonymy
____ Synecdoche
____ Hyperbole
____ Paradox
____ Apostrophe
____ Literal