Figurative Language

Front

Difference between simile and metaphor?

Back

Similes use 'like' or 'as'; metaphors do not.

Front

Sound device in: Softly and slowly the snowflakes fell

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Alliteration

Front

Figurative device in: 'The salmon we caught was bigger than the boat!'

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Hyperbole

Front

Device in: I looked outside and it was raining cats and dogs.

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idiom

Front

Figurative device in: 'The old tree stretched his long and gangly fingers towards the sky.'

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Personification

Front

Term for a word that sounds like what it describes.

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Onomatopoeia

Front

Words starting with the same consonant

Back

alliteration

Front

Sounds imitating meanings (pop, fizz, hiss)

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onomatopoeia

Front

Words ending in the same sounds

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Rhyme

Front

Strong, regular, repeated sound pattern

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Rhythm