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  • "Snow lay here and there in patches on the grass, like a lady’s gloves forgotten”
    Simile
  • “Wake up, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is sick and pale with grief"
    Personification
  • "I heard a fly buzz - when I died"
    Onomatopoeia
  • "The kite was the key to his heart.”
    Metaphor (also alliteration)
  • What is a metaphor?
    Comparing one thing with another thing by saying they are the same
  • What is onomatopoeia?
    Words that sound like what they mean
  • What is a simile?
    Comparing one thing with something else using 'like' or 'as'
  • "The watchful night-wind, as it went creeping along from tent to tent, and seeming to whisper, ‘All is well!'”
    Personification
  • "A big wardrobe stood open and two white suits hung there like the last teeth in an old mouth"
    Simile
  • “Many mumbling mice are making midnight music in the moonlight"
    Alliteration
  • What is alliteration?
    When words that are near or next to each other have the same sound at the beginning.
  • “The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed"
    Metaphor
  • What is personification?
    Giving non-human things human characteristics
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