Question

PRACTICE Identify items 1-4 as personification, metaphor, or simile.

Explain how you made your determination. Then, answer question 5.
NOTEBOOK
1. Regulation rations at the deep space hub are little coffins of horror:
The tiny boxes are filled with long-dead things that should be buried,
not eaten.
2. The storm won its argument with the Martian colony.
3. Gravity held on, unwilling to let the spaceship go.
4. The sea is like a sheet of silver covering half of my beloved home
planet.
5. Given these examples, describe ways in which figurative language
may create tone or mood.

Answer 1

1. metaphor- it's saying the rations are coffins of horror but they aren't literally

2. personification- makes it seem like the storm is a human cuz it won it's argument

3. personification- gives gravity humanlike qualities by having it hold on

4. simile- comparing zsa to silver sheet with "like"

5. the figurative language can exaggerate actions and things that happen with non-human things to better set tone.