Figurative Language
Sound Devices
100

What is a simile?

This device compares two unlike things using "like" or "as."

She came in like a wrecking ball

100

What is alliteration?

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

200

What is "My pen danced across the page

Personification


200

What is assonance?

The repetition of vowel sounds, like in "Try to light the fire."

300

What is a metaphor?

his device says one thing is another to suggest similarity.

His face was a mask of anger

300

What is onomatopeia

The cash register popped open with a heart warming, *ca-ching!"

400

What is "the glistening sun rippled in the waves"

Imagery

400

Tommy requested Kahoot a billion times!

Hyperbole

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