“On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.”?Is this a simile or is it personification/metaphor etc? |
“On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.”?Is this a simile or is it personification/metaphor etc? |
simile
This is a simile!
This is because similes use "like" or "as" to compare two different things. This is compared gray, sculptured stones and how similar they are to quiet, still rabbits. Another example would be "my cat is as fat as an elephant"
A metaphor doesn't compare using "like" or "as" because that is a simile. Metaphors actually give out the information, such as "the assignment was a breeze". That is a metaphor because-- is the assignment REALLY light wind?
And Personification is where you give human qualities to non-human things. Such as "the Sun was playing peek-a-boo with the dark clouds" because the sun isn't living, and saying it is playing peek-a-boo (a human game) with dark clouds (another non-living thing) then it is personification.
A simile is recognised by the words 'as' or 'like' and it compares something to something else. A metaphor says something is something else. Personification is giving an inanimate object the feelings/emotion/characteristics of a person.
So your example is a simile :)