EXAGGERATION: The writer stretches the truth to make the story more 
    interesting or funny.
	EXAMPLE: The fog was so thick you could slice it with a knife.

  PERSONIFICATION: The writer gives human qualities to nouns that 
    aren't actually human.
	EXAMPLE: The house watched us as we walked past it.

  SIMILE: The writer compares two things that are not the same
    using the word like or as.
	EXAMPLE: Jill could run like a cheetah.

  METAPHOR: The writer compares to things that are not the same
    and states that one thing is the other.
	EXAMPLE: Jill was a busy bee.

  LITERAL: The sky was full of clouds.

  EXAGGERATION: There were more clouds than sky today.

  PERSONIFICATION: The sky begged to be free of the clouds.

  SIMILE: The sky was like a bucket full of clouds.

  METAPHOR: The sky was a bucket full of clouds.