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100

A comparison of two unlike things using "like," "as," or "than"

What is a simile?

100

When a thing that is not human is given human characteristics

What is personification?

100

Her smile is the sun.

What is a metaphor?

100

The wind whispered through the trees.

What is personification?

200

An exaggeration

What is hyperbole?

200

An expression different from its literal meaning

What is an idiom?

200

She sells seashells down by the seashore.

What is alliteration?

200

The thunder boomed across the village.

What is onomatopoeia?

300

The same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

What is alliteration?

300

An indirect reference

What is allusion?

300

I've told you to stop a 1000 times.

What is hyperbole?

300

The old man with the long, gray beard sat bent over a red bench.

What is imagery?

400

A comparison of two unlike things

What is a metaphor?

400

A word that sounds like its meaning

What is onomatopoeia?

400

If I just had my ruby slippers, I'd go home right now.

What is allusion?


400

It's raining cats and dogs.

What is an idiom?

500

Language that deals with the five senses

What is imagery?

500

He ran like lightning.

What is a simile?

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