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Understanding

Similes, Metaphors,Personification

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An emerald is as green as grass,

A ruby red as blood;

A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;

A flint lies in the mud.

A diamond is a brilliant stone,

To catch the orld!s desire; An opal holds a fiery spar";

#ut a flint holds fire.

By Christina Rosetti

Flint



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Simile

A simile compares tothings using the ords$li"e% or $as.%

Comparing one thing toanother creates a vividimage.

The runner streaked like a cheetah.



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The &ight is a big blac" cat

The moon is her topa' eye,

The stars are the mice she hunts at night,

(n the field of the sultry s"y.

By G. Orr Clark

The Night is a Big Black Cat



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Metaphor

A metaphor compares

to things ithout using

the ords $li"e% or $as.%

)ives the *ualities of one

thing to something that is

*uite different.

The inter ind is a olf

holing at the door.



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Personification +ample

Mister Sun

-a"es up at dan,Puts his golden

Slippers on,

Climbs the summer

S"y at noon,Trading places

-ith the moon.

by J. Patrick Lewis

From $Mister Sun%



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Personification

Personification gives

human traits and

feelings to things that

are not human li"e

animals or ob/ects.

The moon smiled down at

me.



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0igures of Speech

0igures of speech are

tools that riters use to

create images, or $paint

pictures,% in your mind.

Similes, metaphors, and

personification are three

figures of speech that

create imagery.

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