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Literary Devices

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    Review: onomatopoeia, alliteration, simile and metaphor
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  • True or false, this sentence includes repetition: The sun set silently in Sacramento.
    False
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  • "The boy busily baked brownies" is an example of...
    Alliteration
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  • Squawk! is an example of...
    Onomatopoeia
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  • "Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore" is an example of what?
    Alliteration
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  • "Her eyes are an ocean" is an example of what?
    metaphor
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  • "That pillow is as flat as a pancake" is an example of?
    simile
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  • "Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore" is an example of what?
    Alliteration
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  • "BOOM" is an example of what?
    Onomatopoeia
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  • "No, no, NO...I said do NOT do that!" is an example of what?
    Repetition
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  • What is a simile?
    A comparison using like or as
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  • "My brother is such a couch potato!" is an example of?
    metaphor
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  • I think my grandfather is as old as these hills!
    metaphor
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  • "My four year-old grandson swims like a fish!" is an example of?
    simile
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  • "My teeth were chattering as I stood out in the rain, waiting to be let in the house" is an example of
    Onomatopoeia
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  • "Last night I slept like a baby" is an example of?
    simile
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  • Which two literary devices appear in the following sentence: The bees buzzed busily in the bush.
    alliteration and onomatopoeia
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