Examples of Similies and Personifications?

Answer 1

Personification, or personification anthropomorphism is a figure of speech that gives non-humans and objects human traits and qualities.(EX: the bear was talking to the little girl) These attributes may include sensations, emotions, desires, physical gestures, expressions, and powers of speech, among others. As a figure of speech it has a very long history; its Greek name is prosopopoeia. Examples include: "The pencil flew out of my hand", "The tree jumped into the road in front of my car", and "With an evil scowl, the stormcloud thundered its disapproval". Personification is widely used in poetry and in other art forms.

Personification's treatment of inanimate objects is very similar to the figure of speech called the pathetic fallacy; the key difference is that personification is direct and explicit in the ascription of life and sentience to the thing in question, whereas the pathetic fallacy is much broader and more allusive. Another related rhetorical device is apostrophe; this entails not speaking about, but speaking to, a personified entity or an absent person. All these tropes should be understood as separate from anthropomorphism, which ascribes human attributes to any non-human entities, in particular to animals and other creatures. These animals or creatures cannot actually do the verb that it is given.

An example of personification can be found in John Keats's "To Autumn," the fall season is personified as "sitting careless on a granary floor" (line 14) and "drowsed with the fume of poppies" (line 17), and John Donne's Holy Sonnet X, in which death is personified as a "slave to fate, chance, kings and desperate men" (line 9), and "poor" (line 4).

Personification is also widely used by individuals and mass media outlets when describing the actions of governments or corporations. Such as, "U.S. Defends Sale of Ports Company to Arab Nation" [1] or "Microsoft embarrassed one final time over SP2". [2] Personification is frequently employed in media headlines and cartoons.

Many familiar phrases and images employ personification -- for example, "blind justice".




A simile is a figure of speech in which the subject is compared to another subject. Frequently, similes are marked by use of the words like or as. "The snow was like a blanket". However, "The snow blanketed the earth" is also a simile and not a metaphor because the verb blanketed is a shortened form of the phrase covered like a blanket. A few other examples are "The deer ran like the wind", "In terms of beauty, she was every bit Cleopatra's match", and "the lullaby was like the hush of the winter."]]

Similes are composed of two parts: comparandum, the thing to be compared, and the comparatum, the thing to which the comparison is made. For example in the simile "The snow was like a blanket", "the snow" is the comparandum while "a blanket" is the comparatum.

The phrase "The snow was a blanket over the earth" is a metaphor. Metaphors differ from similes in that the two objects are not compared, but treated as identical, "We are but a moment's sunlight, fading in the grass." Note: Some would argue that a simile is actually a specific type of metaphor. See Joseph Kelly's The Seagull Reader (2005), pages 377-379.

[edit] Examples of similes from songs
Cheaper than a hot dog with no mustard - Beastie Boys
You're as subtle as a brick in the small of my back - Brand New & Taking Back Sunday
Put your arms around me like a circle 'round the sun - Will Shade (Memphis Jug Band)
My heart is like an open highway - Jon Bon Jovi
Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall - Led Zeppelin
Like a June Bug in December - Jason Jones
It's been a hard day's night and I've been working like a dog - The Beatles
He started howlin’ like a monsoon wind - Bruce Springsteen
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle - Irina Dunn
((This simile was originally penned by an Australian editor, journalist, and educator, Irina Dunn, as graffiti on the walls of two bathrooms in Sydney, Australia, and it spread around the world from there. Interestingly, she was actually co-opting the so-called "Vique's Law," states that 'Man needs Religion like a fish needs a bicycle.') Gloria Steinem popularized the phrase during her work in the Women's Rights Movement, but duly cited Irina Dunn in a letter to Time magazine in 2000. U2's Bono also used the phrase, many years later, in the song Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World.))

Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylanhi
Free as a bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Like a bat out of hell - Meat Loaf
It makes no sense waiting the team risen, like Pakistan and India liberated by Britain - Vinnie Paz (rapper)
I know that I must do what's right, as sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti - Toto
I shake and reveal stage tricks like Jimi Hendrix - The Streets

[edit] Examples of similes in everyday speech
There are countless examples of similes used in everyday speech. Below is a list of examples; by no means an exhaustive account, as there are too many examples to list.

busy as a bee
clear as a bell
cold as ice
cute as a button
dry as a bone
dead as a doornail
deaf as a post
dumb as a doorknob
easy as pie
fast as greased lightning
fine as a fox
fit as a fiddle
free as a bird
happy as a lamb
high as a kite
in like Flynn
in there like swimwear
larger than life
light as a feather
mad as a hatter
plain as day
plain as pudding
proud as a peacock
quick as a wink
quiet as a mouse
right as rain
sharp as a tack
sick as a dog
smooth as silk
snug as a bug in a rug
solid as a horse
solid as a rock
tough as nails
white as snow
working like a dog
strong as an ox
sly as a fox

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Personifications
-the sky weeped
-the wind danced
Similies
-sick as a dog
-sharp as a tack

Answer 4

Personifcation- a smiling moon
Smilie- as cold as ice