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Parts of Speech
100

Comparing two objects using like or as.

Simile

100
Comparing two objects without using like or as
Metaphor
100
The stale bread was as hard as a rock.
Simile
100
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
100

A person, place, or thing

Noun

200

Using extreme exaggeration.

Hyperbole

200

The author gives an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story

Foreshadowing

200

What do you call a cinnamon bun with straight As?

An honor roll

Pun

200

"Yet in taxis, which can seat as many as five people, men and women are squeezed together like sardines."

Simile

200

A word that describes a noun or pronoun. Ex. The GREEN grass grew after the rain.

Adjective

300
Giving human qualities to an object or animal
Personification
300
Words that imitate the sounds they make
Onomatopoeia
300

BOOM, SPLAT

Onomatopoeia

300

The boy's stomach was a bottomless pit.

Metaphor

300

A word that shows action in a sentence.

Verb

400
The repetition of a beginning consonant sound in words that are close together
Alliteration
400

An indirect reference to something well known by most people. 

Allusion

400

I'm so tired, I'm going to die. 

Hyperbole

400

The sign on the door insulted my intelligence.

Personification

400

A word that describes a verb, adjective, or another of itself. Ex. The turtle SLOWLY crossed the street.

Adverb

500
A figure of speech that does not literally mean what it says. It has usually been passed down from generation to generation.
Idiom
500

A humorous play on words. 

Pun

500

"He felt he had climbed a rung in the ladder."

Idiom

500

My math teacher is he who must not be named. (Voldemort from the Harry Potter series)

Allusion

500

A word that is used instead of a noun or noun phrase.

Pronoun