2) Night's Candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops
3) The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.
4) The farm was crouched on a bleak hillside, whence its fields, fanged with flints, dropped steeply to the village of Howling a mile away
5) Maternally the great tree protected us, sighing and groaning, as she lowered her arms to shield us from the storm.
suggest by using simile, metaphor, or personification. For each write a sentence with the figure of speech.
1) Stubborness
2)a plane taking off
3) A fruit tree in bloom
4) birds sitting on a telephone wire
5) cars in bumper-to-bumper traffic
Answers:
1. Metaphore. Not a simile just because the word like is in the sentence. ( I was a bubble)
2.Personification. Day stands tiptoe
3.Metaphore. Ripple was tonic
4. Personification. Farm crouched
5 Personification. Tree, she dropped arms Give your own opinion of how effective they are.
Here are some ideas to get your sentences started:
1.Stubborness is like ... (simile)
2. plane taking off was a silver bird (metaphore)
3Fruit tree in bloom...(try personification, give it human character)
4. birds on wire like (ducks in a shooting galery- simile)
5, cars (personification, spoke loudly)
When you get the hang of it, you'll find they can be fun.