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  • The bees were buzzing around the flowers.
    Onomatopoeia
  • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
    Alliteration
  • It took a million years for Thomas to finish his homework.
    Hyperbole
  • He was tall like a giraffe.
    Simile
  • an intentionally exaggerated figure of speech
    Hyperbole
  • a partial similarity
    Analogy
  • Pen is to ink as pencil is to lead.
    Analogy
  • The stars twinkled like diamonds in the sky.
    Simile
  • The sun is to the sky as the grass is to the earth.
    analogy
  • compares two unlike things, by using the word like or as
    Simile
  • BOOM! The thunder roared outside of our tent.
    Onomatopoeia
  • the repetition of the same sounds or the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words
    Onomatopoeia
  • The sun smiled across the forest one early summer morning.
    Personification
  • My coach is a lion! He yells so loud when we score!
    Metaphor
  • compares two unlike things and doesn’t use the word like or as
    Metaphor
  • a comparison in which something nonhuman is given human characteristics
    Personification
  • You are a chip off the old block.
    Idiom
  • It is raining cats and dogs outside!
    Idiom
  • an expression that doesn’t mean what it literally says
    Hyperbole
  • The city was a jungle.
    Metaphor
  • words of which the sound suggest meaning
    Idiom
  • Reading is rewarding and really rad.
    Alliteration
  • The computer printer started to spit out more copies.
    Personification
  • He was so hungry, he could eat a horse.
    Hyperbole
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