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ESSAY SAMPLE ON "SIMILES, METAPHORS AND PERSONIFICATION" |
Secret Lion
The first passage is a simile. This can be supported by its definition. A simile means
comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word. The passage
is comparing junior high school to a roaring lion. You can see that junior high school is
not like a lion itself but it is being compared to one.
The second passage is a personification. Personification means that something nonhuman
is given human qualities. The passage states, "Nature seemed to keep pushing us around
one way or another, teaching us the same thing every place we ended up." This means that
nature is pushing the boys around, trying to teach them lessons. That is a human quality
that is given to nature. Nature itself is not human.
The third passage is a metaphor. A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a
comparison between two things that are basically not similar. The passage stated, "It was
just perfect in the way it was that place, that whole going to that place, that whole
junior high school lion." That meant going to that place was like a lion. That is what
makes this passage a metaphor.
The fourth passage is a simile. The passage said that everything had changed. That it
had changed so fast like the tablecloths magicians pull from under stuff on the table but
the gasp from the audience makes it not matter. The passage was comparing going to junior
high school to a tablecloth the magicians pull because junior high school was a big
change to the boys. The gasp! from the audience meant the change did not matter because
in the long run everything will be O.K.
The fifth and last passage is a personification. It is a personification because the
passage is saying that the arroyo taught them to look the other way.
It stated, "That was the first time we stopped going to the arroyo. It taught us to look
the other way."
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