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Effectively Incorporating Simile, Metaphor, Personification & Idiom

Adding Voice to Your Writing. Effectively Incorporating Simile, Metaphor, Personification & Idiom. Similes. Similes are open comparisons. They are clear-cut because the words like and as tell us a comparison is being made. Example: Her eyes were like daggers aimed at my heart.

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Effectively Incorporating Simile, Metaphor, Personification & Idiom

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  1. Adding Voice to Your Writing Effectively Incorporating Simile, Metaphor, Personification & Idiom

  2. Similes Similes are open comparisons. They are clear-cut because the words like and as tell us a comparison is being made. Example: Her eyes were like daggers aimed at my heart.

  3. Metaphor Metaphors make a comparison without using like or as. They are hidden comparisons because, at times, they are difficult to find. • When a statement is literal, it is not a metaphor: • The classroom was cold. • When the statement is making a comparison, it is metaphorical: • Her voice was cold.

  4. Personification Personification is giving human qualities to inanimate objects. Example: The wind whispered as he drifted off to sleep.

  5. It’s fun to write comparisons! • My mind feels like • My life is as chaotic as clowns crammed into a Volkswagen bug. Simile Metaphor • My mind is a turtle slowly ambling down the road. • My life is a turtle Personification • The pen • The house spit out words effortlessly. creaked with old age.

  6. Idioms What exactly do these sayings mean???

  7. “All that glitters is not gold.” Even is something seems like it is attractive or worth money at first, sometimes it ends up being worthless.

  8. “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” Don’t complain if the gift you get is not exactly what you wanted.

  9. “Give someone the third degree.” To use pressure, either physical or mental, to get a person to admit to a wrongdoing.

  10. “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” You shouldn’t criticize someone if you are just as bad as they are.

  11. “Full of hot air.” When you can’t believe what someone says because they are foolish and exaggerated.

  12. “Turn over a new leaf.” To make a new and fresh start. To begin again.

  13. “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” When someone becomes set in their ways and resists learning or trying something new.

  14. “Catch more flies with honey than vinegar.” You can get more accomplished if you are nice rather than rude.

  15. “Eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” When the revenge or punishment is exactly like the crime.

  16. “On pins and needles.” Very nervous and waiting anxiously for something.

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