Figurative language

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What is a metaphor?

Back

Comparing two things without using like and as.

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What is a simile?

Back

Comparing two things using like or as.

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What is a hyperbole?

Back

An exaggerated statement not to be taken literally.

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What is personification?

Back

Giving human traits to non-human things.

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.

Front

Example of a metaphor?

Back

Time is a thief.

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Example of a simile?

Back

Her smile is like the sun.

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Example of hyperbole?

Back

I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

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Example of personification?

Back

The wind whispered through the trees.

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Example of alliteration?

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Silly snakes slither silently.