PERSONIFICATION

◦ is when you give an animal or object qualities or abilities that only a human can have.
This creative literary tool adds interest and fun to poems or stories. Personification is
what writers use to bring non-human things to life. It helps us better understand the
writer's message.
◦Lightning danced across the sky.
◦My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed
every morning.
◦My house is a friend who protects me.
◦My flowers were begging for water.
◦Time flies when you're having fun.
Simile

◦is a figure of speech that compares two

different things in an interesting way
◦uses the words "like" or "as" to draw a
comparison
Examples
◦ You were as brave as a lion.
◦ They fought like cats and dogs.
◦ He is as funny as a barrel of monkeys.
◦ Don't just sit there like a bump on a log.
◦ My love for you is as deep as the ocean.
◦ I am so thirsty that my throat is as dry as a bone.
Metaphor
◦ is a figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between
two things that aren't alike but do have something in common.
◦ Unlike a simile, where two things are compared
directly using like or as, a metaphor's comparison is more indirect,
usually made by stating something is something else.
◦ is very expressive; it is not meant to be taken literally. You may
have to work a little to find the meaning in a metaphor.
Examples
◦ The classroom was a zoo.
◦ My teacher is a dragon.
◦ Mary's eyes were fireflies.
◦ The computers at school are old dinosaurs.
◦ He is a night owl.
◦ Jamal was a pig at dinner.
◦ The kids were monkeys on the jungle gym.
◦ A prepositional phrase function as an adverb phrase.
◦ A prepositional phrase function as an adjective phrase.