Poetry in practice exam review

When two things are being compared using like or as, it is called a:

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

What is personification

• Giving human traits to non-human things

• comparing 2 unlike things

• a word that makes you hear sound

A comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as is:

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

The house is as clean as a whistle.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

My brother was boiling mad.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

New York City is the city that never sleeps.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

The assignment was a breeze.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

That girl is as tough as nails.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

He was so scared he was as white as a ghost.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

After playing football on the cold January day, his fingers were like icicles.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification