Figures of Speech that show comparison

2. Figures of Speech
 Is a word or expression that is not meant to be
read literally.
 It breathes life and colour into the things we
read because it makes us use our imagination
and understand much more than could be said
with just plain words.

3. Simile
A comparison of two
unlike things using
“like” or “as”.

4. Examples
He is as blind as a bat.
Ana eats like a bird.
It is black as a night.

5. Metaphor
A comparison of two things
that are not alike but do
have something in
common.

6. Examples
Life is a journey.
Laughter is the best medicine.
His words are wisdom.

7. Personification
It is giving human qualities
to animals or inanimate
objects or abstract notions.

8. Examples
The hyena laughed.
The wind howled.
The snowflakes are
dancing.