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Figurative Language

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    Figures of Speech, simile metaphor personification hyperbole alliteration onomatopoeia idiom
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  • You've already told me that story a million times.
    hyperbole
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  • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
    alliteration
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  • Bethany could sleep through an earthquake
    hyperbole
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  • My bag weighs a tonne
    hyperbole
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  • The spicy food danced around my taste buds
    personification
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  • The floorboards moaned as I tiptoed across the room
    personification
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  • The TV beckoned to me as I struggled through my homework
    personification
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  • The wind sighed through the field of wheat
    personification
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  • The fabric cascaded out of the cupboard in a rainbow of colours
    metaphor
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  • The model's beautiful teeth were pearls in his smile
    metaphor
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  • You are the sunshine of my life
    metaphor
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  • As the fighter jet went supersonic, a deep boom was heard across the sky
    onomatopoeia
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  • The champion’s tennis racket whooshed as it sliced through the air
    onomatopoeia
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  • Wasps and flies buzzed around our picnic in the garden
    onomatopoeia
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  • The electric car hummed to itself at the traffic lights
    onomatopoeia
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  • The steam train hissed as it waited in the station
    onomatopoeia
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