| A | B |
|---|
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| metaphor | a comparison that does NOT use like or as |
| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration to make a point |
| personification | giving human characteristics to non-human things |
| "so, just as Dawn with fingertips of rose touched the windy world . . ." | personification |
| "Do you never tire? God look at you, iron is what you are made of!" | hyperbole |
| "knocking him overside, as the brave soul fled the body, like a diver." | simile |
| "There as the whirlpool drank the tide . . ." | personification |
| "I sprang for the tree, catching on like a bat under a bough." | simile |
| "cries burst forth from both as keen and fluttering as those of the great taloned hawk" | simile |
| "they might have gone on weeping until sundown . . ." | hyperbole |
| "Egyptian whips are sweet to what you'll come to here, you nosing rat . . ." | metaphor |
