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AUTHORS CRAFT
  • FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

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Metaphor
  • A metaphor is a figure of speech comparing two
    unlike things that have something in common.
    The comparison is made without using like or as.
  • Joe is a nut.
  • His stomach tightened into a series of rolling
    knots and his breath came in bursts
  • The boy was a rigid post.

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Personification
  • Personification is when an author gives an idea,
    object, or animal qualities or traits of a
    person.
  • The paddle pounded the ball.
  • The plane went into a glide, a very fast glide
    that ate altitude, and suddenly there werent any
    lakes.
  • Be asleep, his mind screamed at the pilot.

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Simile
  • A simile is a comparison between two unlike
    things that have something in common. A simile
    always uses like or as to make a comparison.
  • Bob swam like a fish.
  • He wiped his mouth and tried to move his leg,
    which had stiffened like wood.
  • Then back to work, the sun on his back, until at
    last he had a ball of fluff as big as a
    grapefruit.

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Alliteration
  • Alliteration is the repetition of usually initial
    consonant sounds in two or more neighboring
    words.
  • The flying feathers flutter freely.
  • Shining black and silky the seven foot bear stood
    on its hind legs, half up, and studied Brian.
  • He closed his eyes and slept, dreamless, deep and
    down.

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Onomatopoeia
  • Onomatopoeia is the imitation of natural sounds
    in word form. These words help us form mental
    pictures about the things, people or places that
    are described.
  • Bang! The rifle echoed in the air.
  • Then the bird started again, and some kind of
    buzzing insect, and then a chattering and a
    cawing.
  • Dont know, kid The pilots words were a hiss,
    barely audible.

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Hyperbole
  • Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which
    exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect. It
    may be confused with a simile because it often
    compares two items. The difference is that with
    a hyperbole the comparison is an exaggeration.
  • I nearly died laughing.
  • But the hatchet missed, his leg was instantly
    torn with pain, as if a hundred needles had been
    driven into it.
  • His eyes were as round as saucers.

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Repetition
  • Repetition is when one or more words are repeated
    to show urgency or importance.
  • Hello, hello, hello!
  • He was alone. In the roaring plane no pilot he
    was alone. Alone.
  • Divorce. A breaking word, an ugly breaking word.
    Divorce.

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Foreshadowing
  • Foreshadowing is when the author gives a hint as
    to what is coming.

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Oxymoron
  • An oxymoron is a combination of two contradictory
    words.
  • Deafening silence
  • A definite possibility
  • Cold sweat
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