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Similes

• use "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things.
• are a comparison of two unlike things where you say that one thing is something else.  For example, "My grandpa is a teddy bear."
• two words that have similar meanings.

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Some people would like to  _______________ violence in films, but other believe that it should be allowed.  

• ban
• eliminate
• annihilate
• impropriety

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His knowledge of the subject was __________-.

• unperceived
• profound
• mockery
• acute

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What does it mean to be gold? 

• to act jealous of Socs
• to love sunsets and rainbows
• to be young and fresh
• to be a loyal friend

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"Silver bells!... How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night." This sentence includes what figurative language device? 

• Metaphor 
• Simile 
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia 

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Do you ever feel like a plastic bag

Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?

Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin

Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?

-"Firework", Katy Perry

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

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Which is an example of personification?

• She was as loud as a bullhorn.

• The girl whispered into the darkness.

• The trees danced in the wind.

• He was so hungry he could eat a horse.

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(1) This week had been a shipwreck! (2) Monday greeted with a slap on the face as my alarm clock screamed at me to get up. (3) I woke up feeling as ragged as a old pair of holey shoes. (4) I got on my bus feeling like I'd stepped through Platform 9 3/4 into a Hogwarts experience. (5) First of all, math landed an uppercut with a Job-sized problem that had no solution. (6) My mathematician teacher assured me that if I just used my head as something besides a hat rack, I'd find the answer. (7) Then I trudged to English feeling like something the cat dragged, and my friend Paige (8) accidentally gave me a glue stick instead of chapstick. I'm still not talking to her. (9) Although it took forever and a day to get here, Friday finally showed up with her famously fat smile on her face.

What TWO uses of figurative language are shown?

• There's no use of figurative language.

• simile

• implied metaphor

• hyperbole

• allusion

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Death crept in like a thief and without a word Stole what was most dear to me

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile and personification

• allusions

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She is as innocent as an angel

• Simile

• Rhyme

• Personification

• Metaphor

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