I'll let them talk about their reasons first.
"Because of the form of the sentence, it is obvious that the sun is compared to a child here, so it is a figurative sentence." Xu said.
"Children are children. It writes the sun as a person, so it is anthropomorphic! " Xu Yuyang said.
In fact, to understand this problem, we must first understand what metaphor is and what personification is. Metaphor and personification are two different rhetorical methods. Metaphor is what we often call analogy. When describing things or explaining reasons, we use other similar things for analogy. This is a metaphor. Usually we call concrete things "noumenon" and concrete things "carrier". Personification means writing things into adults according to imagination, giving people actions, language, thoughts and feelings.
The difference between metaphor and personification is obvious:
Metaphor focuses on comparison, that is, two things have similarities.
Personification focuses on "imitation", writing directly as a person, giving things people thoughts, feelings, language, actions and so on.
I quickly came to the conclusion that this sentence compares the sun to a child, the body is the sun and the vehicle is a child. There are lively and lovely similarities. Although children are human beings, their language, actions, emotions and thoughts are not imitated. So it should be a metaphor.
It should be noted that there may be both metaphors and personification in one sentence. For example, "The sun is still like a happy child. It is red-faced and not tired. It shook off the red Zhu Tong Dan and splashed countless bright spots on the sea. " The first sentence compares the sun to a child, which is obviously a figurative sentence. The sun's "crooked face", "not tired" and "smartly shaking off" are all manifestations of human movements, so they are anthropomorphic sentences.
In order to distinguish figurative sentences from anthropomorphic sentences, there are many similar sentences in this lesson. I asked my classmates to find out and distinguish. After mastering the methods, the whole class can quickly decide whether they are figurative sentences or anthropomorphic sentences without arguing.