Figurative Language in Poetry
Practice Worksheet
Examine the poetry extracts below and identify the figurative language techniques being used in
those lines
POEM #1
"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky."
- From As I Walked Out One Evening
by W. H. Auden
LABEL and IDENTIFY TWO EXAMPLES OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE.