5th and 6th grade literary devices

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What is hyperbole?

Back

An exaggeration used to emphasize something.

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What is a simile?

Back

A comparison between two different things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is personification?

Back

Giving human characteristics to non-human things.

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What is a metaphor?

Back

A comparison between two different things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is alliteration?

Back

The repetition of the same beginning sound in a series of words.

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What is onomatopoeia?

Back

A word that imitates the sound it represents.

Front

Give an example of hyperbole.

Back

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

Front

Give an example of a simile.

Back

Her smile was as bright as the sun.

Front

Give an example of personification.

Back

The wind whispered through the trees.

Front

Give an example of a metaphor.

Back

Time is a thief.