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A comparison using like or as.
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Simile
Example: I was as hungry as a horse. Comparing hunger to horse |
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A comparison NOT using like or as.
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Metaphor
Example: Her booksack is a ton of bricks. Comparing her booksack to bricks |
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An extreme exaggeration
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Hyperbole
Example: I told you to stop a thousand times I didn't really say it 1,000 times, but I said it many times |
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A group of words that do not have a literal meaning.
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Idiom
Example: That story was the bomb. The story is not literally a bomb, but you are trying to say it was a good story. |
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The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.
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Alliteration
Example: We sell sea shells by the sea shore. |
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A word that sounds like the sound it spells
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Onomatopoeia
Example: Boom!! Sizzle!! Buzz! |
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When you give an animal or thing human like qualities.
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Personification
Example: The wind danced in the breeze. Wind cannot dance like a human. I am trying to say the branches were swaying. |
