Exercise 2 - Identify similes, metaphors and personification Copy and complete the table below:
Quotation / sentence
Figure of speech
1. The fire rose up like a skyrocket.
2. My room is as messy as a garbage dump.
Comparison
3. Joshua is a snake and I don't want to see
him again.
4.
The detective was the bloodhound who
traced the thief.
5. The church spire peeped over the hill.
6. The storm bounced the small dinghy
around.
7. The moon walks the night in her orange
shoes.
8. The teacher is as cold as ice.
9. The smoke ran up the rafters like a
squirrel.
10. The raging sea took the lives of the
fishermen.

1. The fire rose up like a skyrocket.  - simile

2. My room is as messy as a garbage dump.  - simile

3. Joshua is a snake and I don't want to see  him again.  - metaphor

4.  The detective was the bloodhound who  traced the thief.  - metaphor

5. The church spire peeped over the hill.  - personification

6. The storm bounced the small dinghy  around.  - personification

7. The moon walks the night in her orange  shoes.  - personification

8. The teacher is as cold as ice.  - simile

9. The smoke ran up the rafters like a  squirrel.  - simile

10. The raging sea took the lives of the  fishermen. - personification

Explanation:

Simile and metaphor are figures of speech that compare things. The first one expresses such comparison by using words such as "like" or "as". For example: My best friend is like an owl. He never sleeps. Metaphor, on the other hand, does not use such words. It simply states that thing A is thing B: My friend is owl. He never sleeps.

Personification is a figure of speech in which an author gives living qualities to non-living things. For example: The grass danced as the rain poured. - Grass is not human and cannot dance. It is personified.

personal narrative

first person fiction

etc.