The document discusses three literary devices: simile, metaphor, and personification. A simile directly compares two things using "like" or "as", such as "as black as coal". A metaphor is a direct comparison without those words, such as describing men playing cards on a church roof as "playing patience, tile after tile". Personification gives human qualities to non-human things, such as saying "the wrinkled sea beneath him crawls". Examples of each are provided.

1. SIMILE, METAPHOR,
PERSONIFICATION

2. Simile – comparison using the
words ‘like’ or ‘as’

4. As black as...
As light as a...
As clean as a...
As quick as a...
As hungry as a...
As proud as a...
As sharp as a...
As heavy as...
Like a bull in a..
coal
feather
whistle
flash
wolf
peacock
needle
lead
China shop

5. Being stood up is like being the last fruit on the tree,
Left to wither through the winter
Feeling angry is like carrying a volcano in the pit
of your stomach that threatens to erupt at any moment
The leaves fell from the tree like a thousand paratroopers
Leaping into battle behind enemy lines
The class was as boring as counting the perforations in
a bag of PG tips!

6. A Simile poem
By
Stanley Cook

7. Like the white curls from a gigantic beard
Drifting across the barber’s shop floor
In the breeze from the open door;
Like the broken parts of the ice floe
Afloat on the blue of the ocean,
Drifting southward from the Pole;
Like a heavily laden treasure fleet
In a light wind on the calm sea,
Hardly moving with all sails set;
Like suds of foam from the waterfall
That lathers the rocks at its foot,
Gliding over a tranquil pool;
Like wool from a fleece,
Like smoke from a fire,
Like islands in the sky.

8. Like the white curls from a gigantic beard
Drifting across the barber’s shop floor
In the breeze from the open door;
Like the broken parts of the ice floe
Afloat on the blue of the ocean,
Drifting southward from the Pole;
Like a heavily laden treasure fleet
In a light wind on the calm sea,
Hardly moving with all sails set;
Like suds of foam from the waterfall
That lathers the rocks at its foot,
Gliding over a tranquil pool;
Like wool from a fleece,
Like smoke from a fire,
Like islands in the sky.

9. Metaphor – direct comparison
without using the words
‘like’ or ‘as’

11. Craig Raine
There are men
On the roof of the church
Playing patience,
Tile after tile,

12. Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Eagle
HE clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

13. HE clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
metaphormetaphor
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simile

14. OTHER EXAMPLES
•THE SNOW IS A WHITE BLANKET.
•AMERICA IS A MELTING POT.
•MY BROTHER WAS BOILING MAD.
•THE SKIES OF HIS FUTURE BEGAN TO DARKEN.
•HUMOR IS THE SHOCK ABSORBER OF LIFE.

15. Personification – giving human
qualities to objects & animals