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  • A comparison without using like or as
    Metaphor
  • Ms. Shiloh is blind as a bat without her glasses.
    Simile
  • This place is a zoo.
    Metaphor
  • Life is a highway.
    Metaphor
  • My alarm clock screamed at me to get out of bed.
    Personification
  • Sally sells seashells by the seashore
    Alliteration
  • I am starving to death.
    Hyperbole
  • Lightning danced across the sky.
    Personification
  • It's raining cats and dogs.
    Idiom
  • A comparison using "like" or "as"
    Simile
  • A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
    Personification
  • A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.
    Idiom
  • That man was as strong as an ox.
    Simile
  • A heart is commonly used to represent the concept of love.
    Symbol
  • Good things come to those who wait.
    Idiom
  • Repetition of initial consonant sounds
    Alliteration
  • A word that imitates the sound it represents.
    Onomatopoeia
  • A concrete image that represents an abstract idea
    Symbol
  • The bubbles blew around the boisterous baby.
    Alliteration
  • an extreme exaggeration
    Hyperbole
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