Simile, Metaphor, and Imagery

The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• imagery

. . . the jungle weeds were crushed down and the moss was lacerated; one patch of weeds was stained crimson. . .

• metaphor

• simile

• imagery

• personification

night crawled by like a wounded snake.

• metaphor

• simile

• foreshadowing

• irony

Rainsford stood blinking in the river of glaring gold light.

• simile

• personification

• allusion

• metaphor

A comparison of two seemingly unlike things using "like" or "as"

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Descriptive words that appeal to the senses

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• imagery

A comparison of two seemingly unlike things

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

The air is like a butterfly

• methaphor

• simile

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

Danny's room is a pig-sty.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

"Blazing in gold and quenching in purple,"

• metaphor

• consonance

• imagery

• personification