How to use similes, metaphors and personification; Different styles of poetry, ... Metaphors . A metaphor compares two things which aren’t alike but have something in common.

So metaphors have a comprehensive sweep only dreamed of by other figures of speech. (Like personification: That guy is seriously bitter.) They seem conceptual rather than linguistic, a way of ...

Louise Shabat Bethlehem, Simile and Figurative Language, Poetics Today, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Summer, 1996), pp. 203-240. Free online reading for over 10 million articles; ... as well as the critical and ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge called metaphor “an act of the imagination,” whereas he relegated simile to “an act of fancy.” Photo from National Portrait Gallery, 1795. Public Domain Samuel ...

Our master songwriter – Janet Devlin – adds to the challenge by inviting the children to incorporate the ‘Master Skill’ using symbolic language (simile, metaphor or personification).