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This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
What job did Ms. Alexander have before they were a teacher?
University Librarian
How old is Mrs. Walker?
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The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
What is Ms. Alexander's favorite baseball team?
Mariners
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This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
How many states has Ms. Alexander lived in?
6
What are Mrs. Walker's sons names?
Eoin & Elliott
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".
Metaphor
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
Aside from English, what languages does Ms. Alexander (conversationally) speak?
German & Spanish
What is Mrs. Walker's favorite hockey team?
Penguins
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."
What an idiom?
What foreign country has Ms. Alexander lived in?
Austria
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