Similes, Metaphors, Personification

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

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

This house is as clean as a whistle.

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

That girl is as tough as nails.

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

She is as thin as a toothpick.

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Giving human characteristics to non-human things is:

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

The piano sang a mournful song. 

• Personification 

• NOT Personification 

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CCSS.L.6.5A

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

• Personification

• NOT Personification 

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CCSS.L.6.5A

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

• Personification 

•  NOT Personification 

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is being personified?

• The chocolate chips

• The cookie

• Anthony

• Guilt

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CCSS.L.6.5A

This house is as clean as a whistle.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A