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What is an euphemism?
Polite terms to say that replace rude or embarrassing phrases
What is alliteration?
Repeating the same sound or letter at the beginning of words.
What is a metaphor?
Comparing two things without using like or as
What is a simile?
Comparing two things using like or as
What is a euphemism for getting fired?
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“My heart is like an open highway Like Frankie said I did it my way I just wanna live while I’m alive It’s my life.”
Simile
"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?”
Simile
"And baby, now we've go bad blood."
Alliteration
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be / whisper words of wisdom, let it be
Alliteration
He's nervous But on the surface he looks calm and ready To drops bombs, but he keeps on forgetting What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud..."
Metahpor
"My mind makes marvelous moves, masses / Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered / Nap knowing I'm nice, naturally / Knack, never lack, make noise nationally / Operation, opposition, off, not optional / Out of sight, out of min
Alliteration
"All my life has been a series of doors in my face/ and then suddenly I bump into you/ I was thinking the same thing!/ Cause, like, I've been searching my whole life to find my own place/ and maybe it's the party talking...."
Metaphor
Which lines are similes and which are metaphors? "We must be swift as a coursing river/ With all the force of a great typhoon/ with all the strength of a raging fire/ Mysterious as the dark side of the moon."
Simile/ metaphor/ metaphor/ simile
"Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned/ Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain."
Metaphor
"Constantly confusing, confounding the British henchmen/ Everyone give it up for America's favorite fighting Frenchman!"
Alliteration
"A giant of a man was standing in the doorway. His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild, tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair."
Simile
"I'd like to know how Loki used [the scepter] to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys."
Metaphor
"...but the school halls were a battleground where we found ourselves outnumbered day after wretched day."
Metaphor
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