Metaphor
What is a metaphor?
Answer: A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things by stating one is the other.
100: What is a simile?
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100: What is a simile?
Answer: A figure of speech comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as."
100: What is personification?
100: What is personification?
Answer: A literary device where human characteristics are attributed to non-human things.
100: What is an allusion?
100: What is an allusion?
Answer: A reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work of art.
Identify a metaphor from "Abuela Invents the Zero."
Answer: Students should provide an example from the text.
200: Find a simile in "Abuela Invents the Zero."
Answer: Students should provide an example from the text.
200: Find a simile in "Abuela Invents the Zero."
Answer: Students should provide an example from the text.
Identify the Metaphor In
Her smile is a diamond.
Smile being compared to a diamond
Identify the simile in this sentence: "Her smile was like sunshine."
Comparing smile to sunshine.