One Giant Leap Vocabulary

Cut with, or as if with, something sharp

• ascent

• personification

• permanent

• gouged

Meant to last for a long time

• simile

• fragile

• permanent

• personification

The act of giving human attributes to nonhuman or inanimate things

• personification

• ascent

• fragile

• metaphor

Moving up

• simile

• descent

• ascent

• gouged

Comparison between two unlike things using words such as like or as

• simile

• permanent

• personification

• ascent

Easily broken

• fragile

• personification

• metaphor

• ascent

Going down

• permanent

• simile

• metaphor

• descent

Comparison of two unlike things without using the words like or as

• simile

• permanent

• metaphor

• fragile