Long Way Down Fig. Lang.

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What is a simile?

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A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using the words 'like' or 'as'. For example, 'Her smile was like the sun.'

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What is a metaphor?

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things without using 'like' or 'as'. For example, 'Time is a thief.'

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What is alliteration?

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Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words. For example, 'She sells sea shells by the sea shore.'

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What is assonance?

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Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words. For example, 'The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.'

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What is personification?

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Personification is a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract concepts. For example, 'The wind whispered through the trees.'

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Identify the figure of speech: 'Beef gets passed down like name brand T-shirts around here.'

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Simile

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Identify the figure of speech: '...to get lost in the new and strangely familiar feeling of fatherhood.'

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Alliteration

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Identify the figure of speech: 'SLEEP ran from me.'

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Personification

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Identify the figure of speech: '...uncomfortable being crammed in this... this vertical coffin another second.'

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Metaphor

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Identify the figure of speech: 'hiding from headlocks half the night.'

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Alliteration