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What is a simile?
Comparing one thing with something else using 'like' or 'as'
What is a metaphor?
Comparing one thing with another thing by saying they are the same
What is onomatopoeia?
Words that sound like what they mean
What is alliteration?
When words that are near or next to each other have the same sound at the beginning.
What is personification?
Giving non-human things human characteristics
"Snow lay here and there in patches on the grass, like a lady’s gloves forgotten”
Simile
"A big wardrobe stood open and two white suits hung there like the last teeth in an old mouth"
Simile
"The kite was the key to his heart.”
Metaphor (also alliteration)
“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed"
Metaphor
"I heard a fly buzz - when I died"
Onomatopoeia
“Many mumbling mice are making midnight music in the moonlight"
Alliteration
“Wake up, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is sick and pale with grief"
Personification
"The watchful night-wind, as it went creeping along from tent to tent, and seeming to whisper, ‘All is well!'”
Personification
