Simile, Metaphor and Personification

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Successful Life

"STOP TO LOOK FEAR IN THE FACE" IS AN EXAMPLE OF

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

"Stop to look fear in the face" is figurative language because...

• The face of fear is too much to handle

• Fear is an emotion and doesn't have a face

• You shouldn't stop if you are scared.

"With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood."

-- Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream

The underlined parts are examples of...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

"beautiful symphony of brotherhood." Compares...

• Music to a choir

• Family to a piece of music

• Family to brothers

"Rain, somebody said, is like confetti from heaven. So even the heavens are celebrating this morning, joining the rest of us at this wonderful commencement ceremony."

-- USSC Justice John Roberts, Cardigan Commencement Address

The underlined part is an example of

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

...:Rain, somebody said, is like confetti from heaven." means?????

• Rain is joyful

• God is sprinkling confetti

• Rain is wet

She has a beauty like __________________.

The earth is __________________________ that she shakes us hardly.

My mother is the __________________________ of my life.

The street is as _____________ as _____________.