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10 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
The repeating of the first sound of words. |
Peter piper picked a peck of pickeled peppers. |
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Simile |
Comparing two things using the words "Like or As." |
Her eyes were as blue as the sky. |
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Metaphor |
Comparing two things WITHOUT using the words "Like or As." |
The girl has the heart of a lion. |
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Idiom |
A saying that doesn't mean exactly what it says. |
It's raining cats and dogs out there. |
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Hyperbole |
An exageration |
I'm so hungry I can eat a horse. |
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Imagery |
Words that allow you to vizualize in your head exactly what you are reading. ( get your five senses moving) |
He fumed and charged like an angry bull. |
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Onomatopoeia |
A word that is used to represent a sound. |
SPLASH or KNOCK KNOCK |
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Rhyme |
A pattern of words containing similar sounds. |
Go/show/slow/know |
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Personification |
Giving a human characteristics to something not living. |
The flowers waved in the breze. |
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Oxymoron |
Putting two opposite words together. |
Jumbo shrimp |
