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A simile is

• a literary device where a word sounds like what it means.
• a comparison between two objects using like or as.
• Giving human characteristics to a non-human object.
• an extreme exaggeration.

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Sensory details are

• when the writer appeals to the reader through sight, hearing, touch, taste or smell.
• a type of figurative when a writer uses techniques not meant to be taken literally.
• sound effect words.
• when a non-human object is given human characteristics.

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A hyperbole is

• a comparison between to unlike objects using like or as.
• An extreme exaggeration.
• Giving a non-human object human characteristics.
• using language that appeals to touch, smell, sight, taste, or hearing. 

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Personification is

• An extreme exaggeration.
• a comparison of two unlike object using like or as.
• a word that is equal to a sound effect.
• when a non-human object is given human .characteristics

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What is this an example of:

"Divorce.

Secrets.

No, not secrets so much as just the Secret. What he knew and had not told anybody, what he knew about his mother that had caused the divorce, what he knew, what he knew - the Secret.

Divorce.

The Secret." (p.3)

• Repetition

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

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What is this an example of:

"The drone and the sea of green trees that lay before the plane's nose..." (p.2)

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

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What is this an example of:

"... all the instruments in his face as the plane clawed for altitude..." (p.2)

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Irony

• Personification

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What is this an example of:

"The pilot's words were a hiss, barely audible." (p.10)

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

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What is this an example of:

"And now a jolt took him like a hammerblow, so forcefully..." (p. 10)

• Repetition

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

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The bitter taste burned his throat as it came up from his stomach and onto the ground. His stomach continued to cramp and he knew he wasn't going to sleep. 
The above text is an example of

• metaphor.
• sensory detail.
• simile.
• hyperbole.

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