English - hyperbole, personification, simile, metaphor

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simile

A comparison using "like" or "as".

metaphor

A comparison without using like or as.

hyperbole

A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor.

personification

A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics

simile: example

Alan's jokes were like flat soda to the children, surprisingly unpleasant.

simile: example

Allie's cell phone dropped into the toilet like a falling star.

personification: example

Flowers danced about the lawn.

simile: example

Grandpa lounged on the raft in the middle of the pool like an old battleship

hyperbole: example

I can smell pizza from a mile a way.

hyperbole: example

I want to be here 'til they rip this jersey off my back'.

simile: example

If seen from above the factory, the workers would have looked like clock parts.

personification: example

Justice is blind and, at times, deaf.

metaphor example:

Kathy arrived at the grocery store with an army of children.

personification: example

Money is the only friend that I can count on.

hyperbole: example

Mr. Inman has been teaching here since the Stone Age.

hyperbole: example

Patty drank from a bottomless glass of Kool-Aid.

simile: example

She eats like a bird.

metaphor example:

She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show.

hyperbole: example

That was the easiest question in the world.

hyperbole: example

That woman has no self-control.

personification: example

The buses can be impatient around here.

personification: example

The cactus saluted any visitor brave enough to travel the scorched lan

metaphor example:

The detective listened to her tales with a wooden face.

simile: example

The people who still lived in the town were stuck in place like wax statues.

metaphor example:

The promise between us was a delicate flower.

personification: example

The sorry engine wheezed its death cough.

metaphor example:

The typical teenage boy's room is a disaster area.

metaphor example:

The wheels of justice turn slowly.

personification: example

The world does not care to hear your sad stories.

simile: example

Toby manipulated the people in his life as though they were chess pieces.


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