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Here we go.
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Little more figurative language.
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Except this time I went ahead and I bundled three
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terms together.
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They're right here to the side of my head.
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Yup. Simile, metaphor and personification.
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I feel that you probably got a pretty good understanding
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of similes and maybe even a decent understanding of a
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metaphor. The question is, how well do you understand personification?
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Really? I don't care if you know all of them
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perfectly, because I'm still going to go through all three.
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Exactly the same.
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And the reason for that is because one there's nothing
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wrong with a reminder in two.
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I gotta learn to stuff, too.
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So here we go.
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Oh, but wait a minute.
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You know, I'm not gonna start where we need to
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start. I want to talk to you about this article
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I read last night.
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I know the reading teacher did reading.
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I found this article about this stuff called high fructose
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corn syrup.
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Okay, I'm gonna tell you right now, it apparently isn't
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like everything we eat.
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You need to be on the lookout for because from
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what I read, this stuff is really bad.
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It's actually worse than sugar, which is hard to imagine
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this means bad teeth, all kinds of complications later in
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life. You don't want the stuff And because I want
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to help you, I'm letting you know about this stuff.
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I'm also because they found out the stuff comes from
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corn or corn starch.
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I'm also gonna help you out by never again doing
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a corny joke.
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Yep, I lied.
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Here we go.
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So I did say that there are three right, three
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terms I want to talk about simile, metaphor in personification.
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I call these guys in my head privately, the big
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three course.
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Now that I say it out loud, it isn't so
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private. But I called the big Free because these are
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the types of tools, the little gimmicks, the little devices
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that writers use that really make the writing come alive.
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Okay, you'll see it all over the place once you
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sort of discover what these things mean.
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And what examples look like.
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Number one personification.
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That's giving human qualities to non human things.
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What does that mean?
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I don't know.
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That's why I'm here.
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I'm learning with you.
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Let's go take a look at some examples.
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All right?
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It's a little skinny.
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A little hard to see, but you guys are young
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and have better rise.
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So here we go personification again.
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It's when you give human qualities to things that are
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not human.
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My example.
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The moon played hide and seek with the clouds.
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It's kind of cool.
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Now. What's non human in a sentence?
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The moon right?
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And what's acting like a human?
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Could that be playing hide and seek?
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I believe it.
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ISS Now think of the image it that creates.
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You have the moon playing hide and seek with the
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clouds. It sounds like they're being up there being playful.
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It also gives me an image of how the clouds
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are passing right in front of the moon, and blocking
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it out for a little bit actually should be up
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here in my head.
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It's kind of like a moon, and then it moves
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on and we get a little peek again before more
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clouds come and make it disappear.
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They're playing Peek a boo.
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That's great writing personification.
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Does that well, took another one.
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I'm going to skip over a little bit.
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The wind howled its mighty objection.
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What's being personified?
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What's not alive?
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The wind.
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What's acting like it's a person.
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Get being given, ah, human quality.
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Well, the moon is.
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And what's the human quality?
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It is howling its objection.
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The wind can object or complain about something, but it
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doesn't his sentence personification.
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The lime green car was screaming.
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Well, that's a screaming for attention.
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Apparently, I type too quickly or I'm a terrible speller.
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Take your pick.
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It doesn't matter to me.
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It should say, screaming a lime lime green card.
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That's a bright car, Hard to miss.
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It sounds like it's screaming for attention.
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That's human quality.
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Good personification.
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So you got it.
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Just think of the word person in the world personification,
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and it should help you to understand the type of
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writing device we're talking about.
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Figurative language number two.
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Similarly, this is something I think I feel you probably
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got a good handle on, but I'm going over it
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again anyways because I don't have a good handle on
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it, it says, comparing two things using the words like
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or as let's see what that looks like.
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My wife, I is acting like a grumpy old man
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or my wife.
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I is as grumpy is an old man.
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Okay, so I have a comparison.
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My wife I, and a grumpy old man.
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When I think of a grumpy old man, I think
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of somebody who's pretty upset and stubborn and not really
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goingto work with you on things.
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If your wife eyes acting that way, it's probably going
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to slow or dropping all together.
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And I got to believe these last couple of weeks
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people have experienced this.
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Let's look at another simile.
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He is as stubborn as a mule mules air known
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for on Lee wanting to move when they want to
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move. So the comparison here is a person is as
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stubborn as that mule that doesn't want to move now
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again. Remember, the key part to assembly is you have
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to see the word as or like.
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And what's nice about assembly is it makes it obvious
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what's being compared by using the word as or like
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example. I want to say my friend is very strong.
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Well, they say he's as strong as the hole, or
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I could say he's strong, like the Hulk.
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I'm explaining that his strength is comparable to that of
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the whole.
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I got a pretty strong friend metaphor.
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It's when you make a comparison without using a word
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like or as metaphors to me are extremely powerful.
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They're probably the better of the two.
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If you can find them awesome and if you can
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write them even awesome.
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Er, if that's a word I think it is.
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Let's take a look at this here.
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My wife.
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I is a grumpy old man that's different than it's
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as grumpy as an old man or like a grumpy
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old man.
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This time, I'm making the comparison more direct.
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My wife, I is a grumpy old man.
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Now, here's a little trick or problem, sometimes with the
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metaphor. If you don't know enough about a grumpy old
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man or you don't know what the main quality is
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people think of when we think of a grumpy old
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man, you can actually make a confusing situation here.
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If my understanding of a grumpy old man is maybe
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somebody who's just, I don't know unfriendly, I might not
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get what's really happening with WiFi.
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So you gonna be careful with that.
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Let's talk about another one down here.
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They're barred, burned up.
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If I say my friend, he's a mule, Okay?
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Typically, we think of mule you're supposed to think of
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how they're stubborn, and they don't want to do things
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in less than they want to do things.
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However, you could also be suggesting by writing this, that
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your friend is really good at working all day long
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because that's what mules are good at.
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Or your friend has terrific balance when they're going up
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a mountain again, something that mule's air known for.
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So metaphors are awesome because it's so powerful and they
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pack in a lot of interesting descriptors or adjectives about
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a person or a thing.
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But they can sometimes be confusing to my friends, The
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Hulk. I'm thinking he's strong, but it could also mean
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he's green or he has a lot of repents.
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I don't know.
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Let's move on.
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I do love metaphor.
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So some examples that I'm gonna give you a chance
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to guess it.
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A couple here and there from it.
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Ball. The night was cold, so we took cover under
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the tarp in the back of the pickup truck.
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We must have looked like little babies under a blanket.
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So what you think is this I hope you're guessing
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simile because the word like is in there these people,
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these little kids.
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It sounds like they're very cold, so they get under
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a tarp and they look like little babies under a
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blanket. The comparison is them.
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Tow little babies, probably shivering and trying to stay as
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warm as possible.
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After a while, we turned off the main road onto
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a dirt track full of potholes.
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I have the slightest idea where we were.
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There was only darkness, silence in that freezing wind that
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bid it our noses.
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Which literary or writing device is being used here?
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I'll give you a clue.
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The last sentence of the two.
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There was only darkness.
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Silence in that freezing wind that bid at our noses
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in the wind bite.
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No, you have personified it.
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You've turned it into a person.
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It's acting like a person.
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Two for masterminds.
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Over the next few days, I read the paper from
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cover to cover, soaking up every word.
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This one's a little trickier.
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I don't see like I don't see as I could
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get recently.
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Is it personification?
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Is something not human?
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Acting? Human?
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No, it says.
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I read the paper.
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So it is a human person.
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That only leaves metaphor.
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Let's see what they're comparing themselves to.
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It says.
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I read the paper from cover to cover, soaking up
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every word.
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What soaks things up?
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I'm thinking towels and sponges.
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They're making comparisons of themselves to something that soaks up
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a lot of things.
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Metaphor masterminds A regarded my father in amazement.
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He looks tired, even hesitant.
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The steely gray eyes usually so confident, betrayed doubt, hesitation.
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Okay, a little tricky.
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Do I see, like our ass?
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No, not assembly.
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The steely gray eyes usually so confident, betrayed.
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Doubt, hesitation.
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I got it.
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Can your eyes can they actually betray your confidence?
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No, they can't do that.
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And so, in making this non human thing this non
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animate thing, your eyes act like it's a person you
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have personified.
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Two from who?
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The policeman put on the sunglasses and slid into his
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patrol car, which was as hot as a brick of
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it. Whom I hear people yelling out simile and you're
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right, because the word as is there the inside of
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his car is so hot, it's the same as a
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brick oven.
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Who, then we're remembered.
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The heat and humidity, which on some day seemed to
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suck the very meat out of his lungs.
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A long run in the Florida sun would be torture.
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He thought a kid would have to be tough as
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nails to make a routine of that.
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What do you think in here?
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I hope you found assembly.
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It's the last sentence, right?
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A kid would have to be tough as nails to
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make a routine of that.
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So his toughness is compared to that of nails.
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But they're also is another written device in this.
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Do you see the part where it says Roy, Remember
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the heat humidity, which on some day seemed to suck
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the very meat out of his lungs?
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Well, Onley people can perform that kind of inaction, sucking
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on something and so heat humidity can't do that.
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So you have personified it, tried to make the heat
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made a act like a person.
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We're getting the hang of this.
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I hope so.
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I think I am under the same sky listening.
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I couldn't help thinking there were advantages to having divorced
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parents. It seemed to me that ran.
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His mother and father were in a contest to show
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who loved their son the most.
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So not a simile.
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Is something being personified something not alive, acting human?
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I don't think so.
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So I'm left with a metaphor.
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What is being compared without using like a rat as
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well? It seemed to me that Randy's mother and father
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were in a contest as if they're contestants.
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The comparison is their divorce situation is like a contest
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where they have to compete for the love of their
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son under the same sky.
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We all knew mom spiel about how dangerous farming Waas,
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according to her, was right up there with bullfighting and
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race car driving metaphor.
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I hope you got that.
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What's being compared without using the word like or as
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well, how dangerous it is to farm.
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It's likable.
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Fighting were like car driving, but you notice the author
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never used like her ass.
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Good writing, because it's a metaphor.
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It's more powerful.
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So I have here a monster chart.
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It includes everything I've already shown you.
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It's not important, really.
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I just included in case you want to go and
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referred everything in one place the key years that you
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understand that these Big three really are a big three.
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When it comes to writing tools in the figurative language
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tool box of stuff to use.
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It's it's everywhere.
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It's almost impossible to read a book and not find
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some simile or metaphor or use of personification, innit.
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Poetry. Poetry is highly dependent on the street, and you
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should always be on the lookout for them.
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Hopefully, this is all clear for you.
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And please stay away from both high fruit Coast and
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corny jokes.
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Have a good one.