Personification- a kind of metaphor that gives objects or abstract ideas human characteristics

1. Personification- a kind of metaphor that gives objects or abstract ideas human characteristics • The sun smiled at the girl. • The warm, fragrant breeze sang the girl to sleep. • The ball bounced playfully away. • Imagery- a descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures; imagery is created by details that appeal to one or more of the five senses. • The eerie silence was shattered by her scream. • He could hear the footsteps of doom nearing. • The giant tree was ablaze with the orange, red, and yellow leaves that were beginning to make their decent to the ground. • Simile- a comparison between two unlike things, using the words like or as • He fumed and charged like an angry bull. • He fell down like an old tree falling down in a storm. • Her blue eyes were as bright as the Sun, blue as the sky, but soft as silk.

2. Idiom- a form of figurative language where the meaning of the phrase cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up • She let the cat out of the bag. • Put your thinking caps on. • He was on thin ice. • Hyperbole-an expression of exaggeration that authors use to make characters or situations much bigger or smaller than they are really are • That man was as big as a house! • My homework is going to take me a million years to finish. • It is so cold that my boogers are turning into icicles!