Metaphor: A figure of speech where two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another., “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”, “His hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning.”, “Summer was Dill by the fish pool smoking string, Dill’s eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley emerge; summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking.”, “The hurricane is a never-ending roller coaster.”, “His mind was a kaleidoscope of shock, pain, and disappointment.”, Hyperbole: A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis., “They live Uptown. Richer than where I live, the Ninth Ward, New Orleans. Less than eight miles apart. It might as well be the moon.”, “It was only yesterday that Dally had told Johnny and me that. But yesterday was years ago. A Lifetime ago.”, Simile: A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as.", “Your dad’s old school, like an ol’ Chevette.”, “It’s been a long time since I’ve known that feeling, like a soft blanket on a night when the wind howls.”, “His tongue was dry and stuck to the roof of his mouth, as if he’d licked an entire jar of peanut butter.”, “You’re fresh and new, like a red Corvette.”, “She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.”, “...smoke lowering down from chimney pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes...”, Personification: A figure of speech in which things or abstract ideas are given human qualities., “The sun was already painting colors low in the sky.”, “Pink is what red looks like when it kicks off its shoes and lets its hair down.”, “The shattered water made a misty din. Great waves looked over others coming in.”, “Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole just about my eye level, winking at me in the afternoon sun.”, Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of nearby words., “"Ah, William, we're weary of weather," said the sunflowers, shining with dew.”, “David Donald Doo dreamed a dozen doughnuts and a duck-dog, too.”, Onomatopoeia: Words that imitate the natural sounds of a thing. They create a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting., “Crackling, keening, bursting, pounding, the wind screeching...”, “There is a rat-a-tat-tat on the screen door.”, Idiom: An expression or common saying whose meaning cannot be understood literally from the meanings of the words that make it up., “The two boys seem to be nice, regular children, but that unattractive girl and the baby boy certainly aren’t all there.”, “My beautiful Gran died so completely out of the blue.”,

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