PLEASE HELP WHOEVER ANSWERS ALL GETS BRAINLIESTS METAPHOR, SIMILE, AND PERSONIFICATION
Figurative language is language that is not meant to be taken literally. Authors use figurative language to paint an interesting picture for readers.
A simile compares two things using the words like or as. (He ran like an old greyhound. She was as quiet as a deer.)
A metaphor compares two unlike things by saying one thing is another. (The dinner was a three-ring circus.)
In personification, a nonhuman subject is described with human characteristics. (The stars were dancing on tiptoes.)
DIRECTIONS: Read the sentences below. Then, write which kind of figurative language appears in the sentence.
EXAMPLE:
As I read a book beneath the tree, the leaves whispered kind words overhead.
This is a personification because leaves cannot actually whisper - they don’t have vocal cords.
The tree was a skeleton against the starry sky.

Her eyes are as green as emeralds.

The school of fish was a shimmering rainbow.

The door groaned when I opened it.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. isn’t this like condemning socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical inquiries precipitated the act by the misguided populace in which they made him drink hemlock? isn’t this like condemning jesus because his unique god consciousness and never ceasing devotion to god’s will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion? what rhetorical technique does martin luther king employ in this excerpt from “letter from birmingham jail”? select all that apply. allusion extended metaphor figurative language simile

Which modifier could be used to make a comparison? first identical entirely talented

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet