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Description
Mind Map by clairebear5683, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by clairebear5683
over 10 years ago
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Figures of Speech
- Simile
- Compares two things that are alike
- LIKE or AS
- "Cute as a button"
- "Cute as a button"
- LIKE or AS
- Compares two things that are alike
- Metaphor
- Compares two unlike things
- Provide clearer description
- "On the wings of wind"
- "On the wings of wind"
- Provide clearer description
- Compares two unlike things
- Alliteration
- Two or more words in a row starting with the same sounds
- "a peck of pickled peppers."
- "a peck of pickled peppers."
- Two or more words in a row starting with the same sounds
- Assonance
- Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words
- "I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."
(Thin Lizzy, "With Love")
- "I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."
(Thin Lizzy, "With Love")
- Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words
- Personification
- giving human characteristics to non-living things or ideas
- "Oreo: Milk’s favorite cookie."
- "Oreo: Milk’s favorite cookie."
- giving human characteristics to non-living things or ideas
- Onomatopoeia
- A poetic structure of words to convey how something sounds
- "Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime"
- "Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime"
- A poetic structure of words to convey how something sounds
- Hyperbole
- A description that is exaggerated for emphasis
- "I could sleep for a year"
- "I could sleep for a year"
- A description that is exaggerated for emphasis
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