Figgy Lang

“Cars come and go like frantic ants.”

• personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

“I tell her of my father’s great herd, and how they would graze each day, walking for miles, the sun in our bones, the grass whispering its shy music.”

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Definition: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words

• assonance

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

Lisa's lizards were leaping on her lawnchair.

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

A comparison of two ore more different things using like or as

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

The rootbeer fizzed as I poured it into my cup.

• metaphoroeia

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

When a writer references a well-known person, place, thing, event, or famous work.

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Idiom

When a writer gives an animal or an object qualities or abilities that only a human can have?

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Uses extreme exaggeration.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Standing tall and frozen like statues in a vacant courtyard

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration