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1. metaphor alliteration personification simile assonance onomatopoeia

2. Simile: a way of describing something by comparing it with something else using "like" or "as"

3. I am as hungry as a horse. You run like a rabbit. He is as sneaky as a snake. She is as happy as a clam.

4. Metaphor: A way of describing something by comparing it to something else

5. The girl was a fish in the water. The clown was a feather floating away.

6. Personification to describe something that is not human as if it had human characteristics

7. The flowers danced in the wind. The Earth coughed and choked in all of the pollution. The friendly gates welcomed us.

8. Alliteration: Repetition of the first consonant

9. Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on Saturday. Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmy’s on Tuesday. Click here to read more alliterations.

10. Assonance: The repetition of internal vowel sounds. Doesn't have to rhyme!!

11. Onomatopoeia: Words that are sounds

12. Princess Kitty will kiss Timmy T. Tippers’s lips The pain may drain Drake, but maybe the weight is fake.

13. Chug chug chug!! Swish swish swish Yeeeeee Ahhhhhhhh Glippp Gluppp Gluppp

14. Now you try!!