Question

Topic: Figurative Language {reinforcement}




Figures of speech Figure out which technique is being used: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or personification. In the boxes, explain how you figured out your answer. It is possible that more than one technique is being used. If you can, explain each.
1. Life is too much like a pathless wood. Which technique is being used?


2. The needle slept on the broidered vine. Which technique is being used?


3. Beauty calls and gives no warning. Which technique is being used?


4. My Soul goes clad in gorgeous things, Scarlet and gold and blue; which technique is being used?




5. My 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. Which technique is being used?




6. A drum pounds out the hymn, That blends with the endless rumble of carts, The scrape of feet, the noise of marts Which technique is being used?




7. They only know our love was brief, And passing like an autumn leaf. Which technique is being used?



8. They went like moths into the grass with folded wings. Which technique is being used?



9. There the unregulated sun Slopes down to rest when day is done, which technique is being used?



10. A poem is merely a flowering twig of thought. Which technique is being used?

Answer 1

Answer:

No idea brother/sister

Answer 2

Answer:

number 1 is simile  

Explanation: because it's using "like"