Is this sentence a metaphor, personification, simile or a hyperbole.
You might say that birds are excellent energy conservationists.
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Is this sentence a metaphor, personification, simile or a hyperbole.
You might say that birds are excellent energy conservationists.
Well its not a simile, because there is no like or as. It's not really exaggerating anything so I don't think it is a hyperbole. It could be construed as having elements of personification, but I'm gonna go with metaphor.
Well it's obviously not a simile. I don't think it is a metaphor because it isn't comparing anything, it's a statement. I'd say it's closer to either a personification or a hyperbole I just can't decide which.
A personification is a metaphor. Arguably, the "excellent" might be exaggerate. Really, it's all of the above except a simile.
It's comparing a bird with an energy conservationist, saying they are similar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogar The Brave
I don't know, maybe you are right. There has to be ONE answer though and people asked this question on the net before and they are given the answer hyperbole.
I guess technically an energy conservationist is just any organism that conserves energy (every organism), so it's really just a hyperbole.
What a stupid stupid stupid question. This aspect of the english language and grammar studies is by far the driest most nit-picky and self gratifying dribble in education.
So using the word excellent suddenly makes the entire thing a hyperbole?
I GUESS SO!!!!!!!@34567890poiuytre
personification
I would say personification too but almost positive it's hyperbole.
'excellent' is hardly an exaggeration
anyway, why?
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Yeah I think god's right, even though the idea that if you give anything other than extremely basic qualities, English suddenly decides it is personified.
guess we'll find out tomorrow.
after looking at it, it's a hyperbol using a passive personification and a slight metaphor.