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Personification- a kind of metaphor that gives objects or abstract ideas human characteristics The sun smiled at the girl. The warm, fragrant breeze sang the girl to sleep. The ball bounced playfully away.
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Personification- a kind of metaphor that gives objects or abstract ideas human characteristics • The sun smiled at the girl. • The warm, fragrant breeze sang the girl to sleep. • The ball bounced playfully away. • Imagery- a descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures; imagery is created by details that appeal to one or more of the five senses. • The eerie silence was shattered by her scream. • He could hear the footsteps of doom nearing. • The giant tree was ablaze with the orange, red, and yellow leaves that were beginning to make their decent to the ground. • Simile- a comparison between two unlike things, using the words like or as • He fumed and charged like an angry bull. • He fell down like an old tree falling down in a storm. • Her blue eyes were as bright as the Sun, blue as the sky, but soft as silk.
Idiom- a form of figurative language where the meaning of the phrase cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up • She let the cat out of the bag. • Put your thinking caps on. • He was on thin ice. • Hyperbole-an expression of exaggeration that authors use to make characters or situations much bigger or smaller than they are really are • That man was as big as a house! • My homework is going to take me a million years to finish. • It is so cold that my boogers are turning into icicles!