Question

Say if the following sentences are examples of simile, metaphor or personification.

1. The children crept, quietly as mice.
2. The car sputtered and coughed before starting.
3. The wind howled as if it were an angry wolf.
4. The engine roared like a lion.
5. The trees were a prison, trapping the boy.
6. The sunflowers nodded in the wind.
7. Luke ran like the wind until he reached the finish line.
8. Martha is the apple of her mum's eye.
9. The King was a furious lion.
10. The sun hid silently behind a grey cloud.
11. Pam was as cool as a cucumber.
12. Robert's eyes are the ocean, so clear and so blue.
13. The sun smiled down on the children as they played on the sand.
14. As autumn turned to winter, the trees found themselves wearing white.
15. Kate's long hair was a flowing golden river.

Answer 1

1. Metaphor. "quietly as mice"
2. Personification. "sputtered and coughed"
3. Similie. "howled as if"
4. Similie. "roared like a lion"
5. Metaphor. "The trees were"
6. Personification. "nodded in the wind"
7. Similie. "like the wind"
8. Metaphor. "Martha is the apple"
9. Metaphor. "The King was a"
10. Personification. "hid silently behind"
11. Similie. "as cool as a cucumber"
12. Metaphor. "eyes are the ocean"
13. Personification. "the sun smiled down"
14. Personification. "the trees found themselves wearing"
15. Metaphor. "long hair was a flowing"

Metaphor is when you're saying something is something to compare it. Simile is when you say something is like or as. Personification is when something that isn't human is described as if it were human.