Question #c70dd

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Sep 13, 2017

Metaphor is a method of describing an action using imagery to help the audience visualize it. Simile is a metaphor that uses "like" or "as." Alliteration is a sentence or sequence of words starting with the same letter or same sound. Personification gives human-like attributes to non-human things.

Explanation:

Metaphor examples:

The tortured souls of the dead spiraled down in a tornado of despair and darkness.

  • It wasn't an actual tornado.

His debt was being increasing steadily, snowballing until it was enough to build a snowman.

  • You can't actually build a snowman out of debt.

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Simile examples:

They laughed like a hyena.

  • They weren't actually hyenas.
  • Uses "like"

Her smile shone bright, as the sun on a midsummer day.

  • Her smile wasn't actually the sun.
  • Uses "as"

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Alliteration examples:

Sally sold seashells south of Sumner Street.

  • Almost every word in the sentence begins with "s," making the same sound.

Corn kernels were carried in a copper case.

  • This would also be an example of alliteration, even though not all of the words that make a hard "c" sound actually start with "c."

Read the passage aloud to help.

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Personification examples:

Withered leaves danced across the pavement.

  • Leaves cannot dance. They don't have legs or arms, nor are they human. Dancing is a human-like action.

The beautiful cello sang as she played "The Swan" for her mother.

  • The cello did not sing, it has no vocal cords. Singing is a human-like action.