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Understanding
Similes, Metaphors,Personification
Compare Poems
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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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