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What is a simile?

• Compare two things using like or as

• Compares two things without using like or as

• Has a beat

• Shows that you are happy

What is alliteration?

• Compare two things using like or as

• Has a beat

• Words start with the same sound/ letter and is repeated in a phrase or sentence

• Gives human qualities to nonhuman things

What is personification?

• Compares two things using like or as

• Compares two things without using like or as

• Has rhyming words

• Gives human qualities to nonhuman things

What is a metaphor?

• Gives human qualities to nonhuman things

• Compares two things WITHOUT using like or as

• Compares two things using like or as

What is imagery?

• Use descriptive language to appeal to all senses (hear, see, smell, touch, taste)

• ONLY creates a picture in your head

• Something that is not real

Which of the following is a simile?

• The classroom was a zoo

• Sheep should shower in a shed

• I could hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan, and soon the salty, greasy smell wafted toward me

• Without my glasses, I am blind as a bat

What is an onomatopoeia?

• Represents a type of sound

• Something you eat

• Something that rhymes

• Has at least three repeating words in a row

Which of the following is personification?

• Busy buzzing, the bee behaved beautifully

• As playful as a kitten

• Lightning danced across the sky

• Katniss is a peacock

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• The wind was a howling wolf

• Percy is sweet as pie

• Harry hears hooligans hum

Which of the following is an onomatopoeia?

• Honk, Crash, Boom, Clang

• The kitten's fur is milky

• The cookie is as hard as a rock