| A | B |
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| simile | uses "like" or "as" My hair is like an oil pit today. |
| metaphor | one object becpmes another, think metamorphisis=caterpillar turning into a butterfly. My feet weigh 2 pounds each after running a mile!. |
| personification | giving human qualtities to something not human. The sun is going to bed now. |
| hyperbole | exxagerating the truth. I turned into a pig on Thanksgiving! |
| irony | saying/doing the opposit of what a person really means. In a story the ending is the opposit of what you think will happen. Examples: "your outfit is pretty' (when its not) or... a certan girl was going on about how she wouldn't hurt animals when I noticed she was wearing a leather belt.... |
| imagery | puts images (pictures) in mind. -uses details to describe. Example, The green rocky hill.. |
| repetition | repeating, words, phrases or lines. Example, Up, Up and away! |
| rhyme | ending words sound the same. Example, I placed my mug on the rug. |
| rhythm | beats forming patterns in poetry |
| alliteration | repition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds. Example, The big blue bug. |
| onomatopoeia | sounds that imitate their meaning. Example, The bee is buzzing. |
| assonance | repeting vowel sounds. Example, I picked icky big snails off the grass. |
| consonance | repeting ending sounds. I put the wig on my pig. |
