EXERCISES
Select the metaphors in the following and change them to similes:—
1. In arms the Austrian phalanx stood,
A living wall, a human wood.
—James Montgomery.
2. The familiar lines Are footpaths for the thoughts of Italy.
—Longfellow.
3. Life is a leaf of paper white, Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night.
—Lowell.
+90. Personification.+—Personification is a special form of the metaphor in which life is attributed to inanimate objects or the characteristics of persons are attributed to objects, animals, or even to abstract ideas.