Literary Terms by Zach P
A Dark and Stormy Night
Simile: A figure of speech where two things are compared using the words "like" or "as"
"It's like moist black velvet." Comparing night to black velvet. www.etsy.com
Metaphor: A figure of speech where two things are compared without using the words "like" or "as"
"The night would be my eyelids" Comparing night to eyelids. urbantitan.com
Personification: A figure of speech giving inanimate objects characteristics of humans
"An apprehensive night". The night cannot be apprehensive www.rockymountainmagazine.com
Simile
"An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake." Comparing the night to a wounded snake. nolongerfashionable.blogspot.com
Metaphor
"The lights of the yacht became faint and ever vanishing fireflies." Comparing the lights of the yacht to fireflies. www.streetmorrisart.com
Personification
"And on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows." The sea does not have lips. clipartist.info
Simile
"But his thick eyebrows and pointed military mustache were as black as the night from which Rainsford had come." Comparing Zaroff's facial hair to the dark night. www.drunktiki.com
Metaphor
"The wind was a torrent of darkness." Comparing the wind to a torrent of darkness. www.romanloranc.com
Personification
"Twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed." The sea cannot rumble or hiss. www.picable.com