2. Any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile,
personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in
Other than their literal sense, or in other than their
ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or
for other special effect.
5. A figure of speech that
compares two things using
like or as.
-ex. The box is as light as a feather.
-ex. Caleb ran like a frightened rabbit.
6. A figure of speech in which an implied
comparison is made between two
unlike things that actually have
something in common.
-ex. Kate is a chicken.
-ex. Fred is a walking dictionary.
7. -ex. He hugged her a thousand times.
-ex. My car is so old; it is pulled by a
horse.
8. The attribution of a personal nature or
human characteristics to something
nonhuman
-ex. The wind is whispering to the
trees.
-ex. The moon followed me.