Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Figurative Language and Sound Devices
- Similies
- When you compare two nouns with the words LIKE or AS
- The dog's eyes gleamed like polished gems
- Metaphor
- When you compare two unlike objects, thoughts or feelings to
describe a relationship
- Their father was a rock
- Personification
- Giving an inanimate object human qualities
- A standing soldier, the building stood proud
- Alliteration
- Sequence of repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of a word
- The annoying apple ate a mango
- Assonance
- the repetition of similar vowels in stressed syllables
- The slimy slug slipped slowly
- Onomatepia
- Words that sound like the sound they are describing
- BOOM or BANG