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Figurative Language

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    Figurative Language
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  • During the math lesson the teacher heard a giggle.
    onomatopoeia
  •  25
  • Flags flutter and flap in the wind.
    onomatopoeia/ alliteration
  •  20
  • Outside I heard frogs croaks and birds whistle.
    onomatopoeia
  •  15
  • figurative language which gives animals and inanimate objects human characteristics and feelings
    personification
  •  25
  • personification
    figurative language which gives animals and inanimate objects human characteristics and feelings
  •  20
  • The furnace purred like a great, sleepy animal.
    personification, simile, onomatopoeia
  •  15
  • Lightning danced across the sky.
    personification
  •  15
  • The wind howled in the night.
    personification
  •  15
  • The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.
    personification
  •  15
  • Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name.
    personification
  •  20
  • My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.
    personification
  •  25
  • Figurative language that uses like or as to directly compare two unlike things.
    simile
  •  20
  • simile
    Figurative language that uses like or as to directly compare two unlike things.
  •  25
  • She had a voice like an unoiled gate, but somehow not unpleaseant.
    simile
  •  25
  • His nostrils flared; he was breathing like a picadored bull.
    simile
  •  20
  • The bus bounced like an empty cracker box on wheels.
    simile
  •  20