The soda cracked open with a refreshing fizz
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Onomatopoiea
Alliteration
Personification
The toothpicks were toy soldiers, ready to spear the appetizers
Personification
Simile
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Alliteration
You'd better zip your lips.
Personification
Hyperbole
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What is the purpose of figurative language?
It enhances writing and speech by giving it 'life'.
The reader or listener can create powerful mental images.
The writer uses it to SHOW rather than TELL an story.
It makes writing and speech more descriptive.
Music welcomed me with open arms
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Personification
Simile
Alliteration
Your room looks like a tornado went through it
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Metaphor
Bam! The window shattered into a trillion pieces.
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
Mrs. Franke's students are like artists, using words to paint the canvas
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
The spider was suspended from its thread like an acrobat on a tightrope.
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Alliteration
Row, row, row your boat
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Assonance
Alliteration
All eyes on me!" exclaimed Mrs. Foell.
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Hyperbole
Idiom
Personificaiton
Piping hot pepperoni pizza would be perfect.
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Simile
The pimple on my nose is screaming for everyone's attention.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
onomatopoeia
You can see the pimple on my nose half way around the world
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
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Metaphor
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
Personification
Idiom
You are grounded for the rest of your life!
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Rain tapped on the window like a stranger in the night
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
His hands were vulture's claws
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Metaphor
Hyperbole