Similes, Metaphors, Personification

Which word means: 'To compare two things without using the words like or as?'

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification 

This house is as clean as a whistle.

• simile

• metaphor

That girl is as tough as nails.

• simile

• metaphor

She is as thin as a toothpick.

• simile

• metaphor

Giving human characteristics to non-human things is:

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

The piano sang a mournful song. 

• Personification 

• NOT Personification 

The bushes bowed down and greeted us as we walked up the path during the storm.

• Personification

• NOT Personification 

The trees dressed up in red and gold to celebrate the start of autumn.

• Personification 

•  NOT Personification 

What is being personified?

• The chocolate chips

• The cookie

• Anthony

• Guilt

This house is as clean as a whistle.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole