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Similes and Metaphors

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    review to see if students can tell the difference between similes and metaphors.
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  • Which uses words such as like or as to describe something?
    Simile
  •  5
  • Which word uses is to describe something?
    Metaphor
  •  5
  • Which is it? Jenny is as quiet as a mouse.
    Simile
  •  10
  • Which is it? That man is over the hill.
    Metaphor
  •  10
  • True or false: Metaphor and similies are forms of figurative language
    True
  •  5
  • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, what type of figurative language is this?
    Alliteration
  •  15
  • What is a poetic technique in which the initial consonant sounds of words are repeated in close succession?
    Alliteration
  •  25
  • What defines as the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named?
    Onomatopoeia
  •  25