Simile

1. Simile • Definition: A comparison using “like” or “as”. • Examples: • She floated in like a cloud. • It’s as cool as the back side of the pillow. • The students were as busy as bees.

2. Metaphor • Definition: A figure of speech stating that two things are similar. • Examples: • The book was a passport to adventure. • You are what you eat. • Her hair was silk.

3. Personification • Definition: Giving human qualities to ideas or things. • Examples: • His stomach growled like a beast. • The sun smiled down on us with its warmth. • The tree shook its branches angrily.

4. Onomatopoeia • Definition: Words whose sounds suggest its meanings. • Examples: • The bees buzzed. • The rain went drip, drop, drip on the roof. • Smash! The glass shattered on the floor.

5. Alliteration • Defintion: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words. • Examples: • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. • Silly Sally sang a silly summer song.

6. Imagery • Defintion: Creating pictures for the senses (through similes or metaphors) • Examples: • He fumed and charged like an angry bull. • They fought like cats and dogs.

7. Hyperbole • Definition: An extreme exaggeration for emphasis. • Example: I must have eaten a million pieces of candy on Halloween.