![An angry, clip art, stickperson.](https://ontrack-media.net/english_7th/images/E7RdM2L08_img5.gif)
I’ve told you a million times
to clean your room!
He has a heart of gold.
![Dreamy Gold Heart with Pink Wings and a little splash of small Golden Hearts.](https://ontrack-media.net/english_7th/images/E7RdM2L08_img6.gif)
She is as fun as a barrel of monkeys.
![A cartoon monkey head with a mischievous grin](https://ontrack-media.net/english_7th/images/E7RdM2L08_img7.gif)
Opportunity knocked on the door.
![A graphic image of an open door.](https://ontrack-media.net/english_7th/images/E7RdM2L08_img8.gif)
Metaphor: a subtle comparison in which the author describes a person or thing using words that are not meant to be taken literally (e.g., time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations)
Simile: a comparison of two things that are essentially different, usually using the words like or as (e.g., O my love is like a red, red rose from Robert Burns's “A Red, Red Rose”)
Hyperbole: an intentional and extreme exaggeration for emphasis or effect (e.g., this book weighs a ton)
Personification: figurative language in which nonhuman things or abstractions are represented as having human qualities (e.g., necessity is the mother of invention)
Sources: Al_angry, dominiquechappard, openclipart; Gold Heart with Pink Wings, pixabella, openclipart; Monkey head, gmad, openclipart; Source: netalloy—door, netalloy, openclipart
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