What is alliteration?

Repetition of a single letter or sound

What is personification?

Using human characteristics to describe non-human things

What is an onomatopoeia?

A word that mimics the sound it represents

phrase that cannot be taken literally

comparing two unlike things where one is said to be another

Comparison of two unlike things using like, as, resembles

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1
What is alliteration?
Comparing two unlike things using like, as, resembles
Using human characteristics to describe non-human things
Repetition of a single letter or sound
A symbol that stands for/represents something else
2
What is personification?
An extreme exaggeration
A symbol that stands for/represents something else
Using human characteristics to describe non-human things
A word that mimics the sound it represents
3
What is a hyperbole?
A word that mimics the sound it represents
Using human characteristics to describe non-human things
Repetition of a single letter
An extreme exaggeration
4
What am I? My brother is like a cheetah always sprinting everywhere he goes.
metaphor
onomatopoeia
simile
alliteration
5
What is an onomatopoeia?
A word that mimics the sound it represents
An extreme exaggeration
Language at appeals to the senses
Using human characteristics to describe non-human things
6
What am I? "BOOM" when the fireworks as they exploded in the night sky.
simile
alliteration
onomatopoeia
metaphor
7
What am I? The fall leaves danced across the barren parking lot.
alliteration
hyperbole
idiom
personification
8
What am I? Tommy is a gazelle gracefully sprinting through the maze.
metaphor
idiom
simile
onomatopoeia
9
What am I? I've told you a MILLION times to sit down and do your homework!
onomatopoeia
simile
hyperbole
personification
10
What am I? Aunt Alice always ate apples at Amy's apartment.
alliteration
idiom
metaphor
hyperbole
11
What am I? My mom told me that I was the apple of her eye!
metaphor
alliteration
idiom
personification
12
What is an idiom?
An extreme exaggeration
A word that mimics the sound it represents
phrase that cannot be taken literally
Repetition of a single letter
13
What is a metaphor?
Comparison of two unlike things using like, as, resembles
comparing two unlike things where one is said to be another
Using human characteristics to describe non-human things
An extreme exaggeration
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What is a Simile?
Using human characteristics to describe non-human things
An extreme exaggeration
Comparison of two unlike things using like, as, resembles
Comparing two unlike things where one is said to be another

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