Literary Terms by Meghan B
A Dark and Stormy Night
simile: when "like" or "as" is in a sentence, that is comparing two things
It was a low, dull, quick sound-much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. Low, dull sound is compared to a watch in a envelope filled with cotton. giftboxes.onsugar.com
metaphor: when one thing is said to be something else
He had been saying to himself- "It's nothing but the wind in the Chimneys- it is only a mouse crossing the floor," or "It is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp." In this story it was late and he heard a creepy sound so he came up with possibities. www.sodahead.com
personification: when a nonliving/animal/ thing is given human abilities
Ten minute of determined effort brought another sound to his ear- the most welcome he had ever heard- the muttering and growling of the sea breaking on a rocky shore. In this story the sea was muttering and growling which we know they can't. www.surfartposters.com
simile
When I had made an end of these labors, it was four 0'clock still dark as midnight. They where comparing how four 0'clock was as dark as midnight. annawrites.com
metaphor
He had an eye of a vulture- pale blue eye, with film over it. They wanted us to know that his eye wasn't normal, his eye looked like a vulture eye. www.poenightmares.com
personification
All in vain, because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim. In this story Death is a person coming to get the guy, and Death has a shadow. madamenoire.com
Simile
An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake, and sleep did not visit Rainsford, although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle. This is a simile because is has like in it, and it said night crawled by like a wounded snake. www.flickriver.com
Metaphor
Yes he was stone, stone dead. This is saying that the guy was stone dead and stones arn't alive. www.flickriver.com
Personification
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. This is saying that a moon is ghostly, it saying that the moon is scary looking. photo.net