Nim CliNarece Vocabulary Development Metaphors, Similes, and Personification ‘The most common figures of speech are metaphors, similes, and personification, Metaphors directly compare two unlike things. Similes also compare two unlike things but use like, than, as, or resembles to introduce the comparison. Personification gives like qualities or behavior to nonhuman things. The following lines from famous poems include figures of speech. Decide if each quotation uses a metaphor, a simile, or personification. (Watch out: Personification is a type of ‘aphor.) Then, tell what two things are being compared. “Hope is the thing with feathers” —Emily Dickinson “I wandered lonely as a cloud” —William Wordsworth, “The road was a ribbon of moonlight” —Alfred Noyes "0 my Luve is like a red, red rose” —Robert Burns “Lhear America singing . ..” —Walt Whitman "The sea is a hungry dog, / Giant and gray. / He rolls on the beach all day.” —James Reeves “The fog comes / on little cat feet” —Carl Sandburg . “I stepped on the toe / Of an unemployed hoe. It rose in offense / And struck me a blow. ...” Robert Frost Literary entity and analyze metaphors, smiles, and personificstion, Aword is dead /The Word/la palabra 573