Tell how you will use this year to prepare yourself for high school. Predict how your 8th grade year will go for you. Describe the things you will do this year and the things you will not do this year to prepare yourself for your first day of 9th grade.

Personifications: "Bright flowers were waving to me"

"The old cat groaned in protest"

"The wind screamed in anger"

Hyperboles: "Everybody knows Alexander"

"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"

"The bag weighed a ton"

Explanation:

Personifications give human characteristics to non living objects, while hyperboles are exaggerations.