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Transforming Plain Language into Vivid Imagery: Mastering Similes, Metaphors, and Personification

Discover how figurative language can elevate your writing from mundane to extraordinary. This guide breaks down three key elements: similes, metaphors, and personification. Learn how similes make comparisons using "like" or "as," while metaphors create direct equivalences without these words. Explore how personification breathes life into inanimate objects by attributing human qualities. Through engaging examples, see how to enrich your descriptions and engage your readers' imaginations, turning plain phrases into wild, vivid expressions.

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Transforming Plain Language into Vivid Imagery: Mastering Similes, Metaphors, and Personification

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  1. From just Plain Jane, to Wild and Insane! Adding Descriptive/Figurative Language

  2. Key #1: Figurative Language -- Simile Simile: A simile is a figure of speech that uses like or asto make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas. Everyday speech often contains similes, such as “pale as a ghost,” “good as gold,” “spread like wildfire,” and “clever as a fox.”

  3. Key #2: Figurative Language -- Metaphor Metaphor: A metaphor is a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. A metaphor, like a simile, works by pointing out a similarity between two unlike things. Ex: The snow was a white blanket over the town.

  4. Simile v. Metaphor: The Smack Down “A simile uses like or as to connect things; a metaphor eschews [avoids] both words. • Simile: “My love for you is like old lunchmeat. Still here, but way past its expiration date.” • Metaphor: “My love for you is a zombie. Dead but still walking around.” The simile creates a little distance; this is like that. Not same, but similar. A metaphor undercuts that distance. This is that. Not just similar, but absolutely (though abstractly) the same” (Wending, 2012).

  5. Key #3: Figurative Language -- Personification Personification: Personification is a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics. Ex: The sky was sad. It cried today.

  6. A Word for Every Occasion http://www.kisd.org/khs/english/help%20page/Descriptive%20Words.htm

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