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📚 Part 1: Figurative Language Definitions

📖 Read each definition and example below:

Simile: Compares two things using "like" or "as"
Example: She runs like the wind.

Metaphor: Compares two things without using "like" or "as"
Example: Time is money.

Personification: Gives human qualities to non-human things
Example: The sun smiled down on us.

Hyperbole: An extreme exaggeration
Example: I've told you a million times!

Idiom: A phrase that means something different from the literal words
Example: It's raining cats and dogs. (means raining heavily)

Alliteration: Repetition of the same beginning sound
Example: Peter picked purple peppers.

Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds within words
Example: The light of the fire is a sight.

Homonyms: Words that sound the same but have different meanings
Example: there, their, they're

🎯 Part 2: Identify the Figurative Language

1. "The classroom was a zoo during break time."

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Hyperbole

2. "The wind whispered through the trees."

Metaphor

Personification

Alliteration

Idiom

3. "Sally sells seashells by the seashore."

Assonance

Alliteration

Simile

Hyperbole

4. "My backpack weighs a tonne!"

Simile

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Personification

5. "Break a leg!" (meaning good luck)

Idiom

Hyperbole

Metaphor

Alliteration

✏️ Part 3: Create Your Own

6. Write your own simile comparing a fast car to something else:

The car was as fast as _________________________________.

7. Create an example of personification about the moon:
8. Write three words that show alliteration (same beginning sound):

_____________, _____________, _____________

9. Choose the correct homonym to complete the sentence:

I can't _______ you because the music is _______ loud.

here, too

hear, too

hear, to

here, to

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