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Giving human qualities to non-human things is called
Personification
Allusion
Metaphor
Hyperbole
A comparison using like or as is
Metaphor
Simile
Repetition
Symbolism
A comparison using like or as is
Metaphor
Simile
Repetition
Symbolism
Giving human qualities to non-human things is called
Personification
Allusion
Metaphor
Hyperbole
An exaggeration that cannot be true is
Hyperbole
Idiom
Allusion
Alliteration
A comparison not using like or as is
Simile
Metaphor
Repetition
Idiom
The balloon floated away like smoke on the wind.
Metaphor
Allusion
Alliteration
Simile
The balloon floated away like smoke on the wind.
Metaphor
Allusion
Alliteration
Simile
The flowers nodded their heads in the breeze.
Personification
Simile
Idiom
Hyperbole
The flowers nodded their heads in the breeze.
Personification
Simile
Idiom
Hyperbole
Her smile was a ray of sunshine.
Personification
Idiom
Metaphor
Simile
Which figurative language is used?
“As soon as he felt himself slow a bit he started raking back with his arms at his sides like paddles.”
Metaphor
Simile
Which figurative language is used?
“He was a frog thrusting so hard with his legs he went face first into the mud.” A.Metaphor B. Simile
Metaphor
Simile
"The hatchet cut through the aluminum as if it were soft cheese"
Alliteration
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
"The hatchet cut through the aluminum as if it were soft cheese"
Alliteration
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
"...water as hard as concrete"
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
"...water as hard as concrete"
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
"...late sun, cut into his eyes and made him turn away"
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
"He was dirty and starving and bitten and hurt and lonely and ugly and afraid and so completely miserable that it was like being in a pit, a dark, deep pit with no way out"
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
Metaphor
"The water trying to kill him. "
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Hyperbole
Personification
Alliteration
"Hot little jets of hate worked into his thoughts... "
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Hyperbole
"There were tall pines, the kind with no limbs until very close to the top, with a gentle breeze sighing in them... "
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Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
"There were tall pines, the kind with no limbs until very close to the top, with a gentle breeze sighing in them... "
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
"...sleep was slow coming and did not finally settle in until the evening cool turned to night cool and the mosquitoes slowed."
Personification
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor
"...the rain roared down in sheets."
Personification/Alliteration
Simile/Hyperbole
Metaphor/Personification
Alliteration/Simile
"...his leg was instantly torn with pain, as if a hundred needles had been driven into it. "
Hyperbole
Personification
Simile
Alliteration
"He wiped his mouth and tried to move his leg, which had stiffened like wood."
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
Metaphor
"Don't know, kid. . ." The pilot's words were a hiss, barely audible."
Simile
Alliteration
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
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