P5ENG_figure of speech

Identify the figurative language: "This room is as hot as an oven."

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Identify the figurative language: "Drip-hiss-drip-hiss, the rain never stops."

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Identify the figurative language: "The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas."

(a)  

Identify the figurative language: "Boom! The bomb exploded."

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Identify the figurative language: "When the stars threw down their spears,..."

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Identify the figurative language: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

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Identify the figurative language: "Your speech evokes a thousand sympathies, but I do not care to talk to you."

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Identify the figurative language: "The tree invited us to rest under its shadow."

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Alliteration =

• compare two things that are not normally alike, using either like or as

• a thing that is symbolic of something else, especially abstract

• extreme exaggeration

• the repetition of a single letter at the beginning of words in a sentence.

Similes =

• compare two things that are not normally alike, using either like or as

• describe one thing as something else, without using like or as

• deliberately using exaggeration for effect or to make a point

• word combinations which have a different meaning than the literal meanings of each word