Vocabulary: Please write or type the definitions in your own words for each word below.

PLEASE DO NOT COPY and PASTE.

Simile -

Metaphor -

Personification -

Figurative Language -

Write an example of figurative language on each of the following lines.

1. simile: __________________________________________________________________
2. metaphor: __________________________________________________________________
3. personification: __________________________________________________________________

Simile - A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."

Metaphor - A comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as."

Personification - Giving human qualities to non-human things or animals.

Figurative Language - Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation.

1. simile: Her eyes sparkled like diamonds in the sunlight.
2. metaphor: The world is a stage, and we are all actors.
3. personification: The wind whispered through the trees.