Can you answer this?

[Dogar The Brave]

Is this sentence a metaphor, personification, simile or a hyperbole.


You might say that birds are excellent energy conservationists.

[Flaming Flamingo]

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.

[Dogar The Brave]

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.

[Solly]

A personification is a metaphor. Arguably, the "excellent" might be exaggerate. Really, it's all of the above except a simile.

[Solly]

Well it's obviously not a simile. I don't think it is a metaphor because it isn't comparing anything

It's comparing a bird with an energy conservationist, saying they are similar.

[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.

[Solly]

I guess technically an energy conservationist is just any organism that conserves energy (every organism), so it's really just a hyperbole.

[Dogar The Brave]

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.

[Flaming Flamingo]

So using the word excellent suddenly makes the entire thing a hyperbole?

[Dogar The Brave]

I GUESS SO!!!!!!!@34567890poiuytre

[God]

personification

[Dogar The Brave]

I would say personification too but almost positive it's hyperbole.

[God]

'excellent' is hardly an exaggeration

[God]

anyway, why?

[Dogar The Brave]

get on fb

[Flaming Flamingo]

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.

[Dogar The Brave]

guess we'll find out tomorrow.

[Dogar The Brave]

Also:

[leo33wii]

after looking at it, it's a hyperbol using a passive personification and a slight metaphor.