simile: a figure of speech in which one object is compared to a different object by means of a phrase beginning with like or as. The comparison serves to highlight those properties of the first object that are shared with the second object.

personification: the depiction of inanimate objects or abstract ideas as having properties of living beings.

Relative clauses provide explicit information about someone or something. They are introduced by these relative pronouns: that, who, whom, which, whose, when, and where.

The relative clause that reaches downward to the ground provides explicit information about the funnel-shaped clouds that turn into tornadoes.

"blows hard," "heavy rains," "howling roar," "spinning winds," "flying dirt"