Figurative Language & Imagery — Drills · Grade 7 English

Chapter: Poetry, Drama & Comparison

What these drills covers

By the end of Figurative Language & Imagery you should be able to:

4 questions, written answer, each with a worked explanation.

Vocabulary used: personification, imagery, evidence, qualification, revision.

Problem 1

Without opening a model: Explain personification in the assigned reading, distinguishing it from a related idea.
Answer and explanation

Giving a nonhuman thing qualities associated with human action or feeling. First establish the literal action or object. Figurative language invites a comparison or gives a nonhuman object a human quality. If you skip the literal situation, you may invent a meaning that the passage cannot support. A door can creak; it cannot literally reply to a question.

Use the model to discuss reasoning after an independent attempt. A different accurate supported response can be correct; written work needs human marking.

Problem 2

Without opening a model: Explain the door image and its effect without treating it as literal speech.
Answer and explanation

The door’s reply personifies an object: a difficult opening is presented as a partial sigh. The image makes resistance to entering audible and connects a physical threshold with the poem’s concern about practical welcome. It does not prove that the door thinks or that every door has the same symbolic meaning.

Use the model to discuss reasoning after an independent attempt. A different accurate supported response can be correct; written work needs human marking.

Problem 3

Without opening a model: Evaluate this claim: “Naming a device completely explains its effect.” Explain a correction in context.
Answer and explanation

This claim is misleading. Imagery can evoke sound, touch, movement, smell, taste, or sight. The phrase “half a sigh” makes the door’s resistance seem audible and incomplete. Examine the surrounding action before assigning an emotional effect. An image can allow more than one interpretation without allowing every interpretation. The door’s reply personifies an object: a difficult opening is presented as a partial sigh. The image makes resistance to entering audible and connects a physical threshold with the poem’s concern about practical welcome. It does not prove that the door thinks or that every door has the same symbolic meaning.

Use the model to discuss reasoning after an independent attempt. A different accurate supported response can be correct; written work needs human marking.

Problem 4

Without opening a model: What does the borrowed map’s margin suggest beyond a blank area?
Answer and explanation

The margin provides room for later observations and revision. The meaning depends on the map’s changed condition and returned pencil, not a universal rule that all margins symbolize the same thing.

Use the model to discuss reasoning after an independent attempt. A different accurate supported response can be correct; written work needs human marking.

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