Analyzing Creon’s Speech Figurative Language – Flashcards
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Alliteration
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Repetition of a beginning consonant sound ex. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
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Assonance
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Repetition of a vowel sound ex. The sound of the hound was bound to make me crazy.
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration ex. I am so hungry, I could eat a horse.
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Personification
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Giving human qualities to something that is not human ex. The trees danced in the wind.
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Metaphor
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A comparison that does not use like or as ex. Her face is an open book.
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Simile
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A comparison that uses like or as ex. Her face is like an open book.
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Onomatopoeia
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A word that sounds like what it means ex. Crack! Boom! Blam!
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Idiom
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A phrase that is not taken literally ex. It's raining cats and dogs.
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Alliteration
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I am a Super Samson Simpson
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Idiom
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After getting my report card, I knew it was time to hit the books.
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Idiom
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I got up on the wrong side of the bed.
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Hyperbole
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a million billion trillion stars
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Idiom
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I guess my friends were just pulling my leg.
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Hyperbole
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I must've walked a hundred miles today.
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Simile
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The rain seemed like an old friend who had finally found us out.
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Simile
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The baby was like an octopus, grabbing for everything in sight.
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Metaphor
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My father was the sun and moon for me
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Idiom
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The movie took my breath away
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Idiom
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Leslie said that she was in the dark about what was going on
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Personification
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The tree shook its branches angrily
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Personification
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Because I could not stop for Death, Death kindly stopped for me
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Personification
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The Sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle
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Hyperbole
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Her head was so full of ideas that is was ready to burst wide open
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Hyperbole
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I've told you a million times to clean your room
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Hyperbole
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I'm so hungry I could eat a horse
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Simile
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The athlete was as strong as an ox
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Simile
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Susan could run like the wind
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Hyperbole
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Mother made enough dinner to feed an army
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Hyperbole
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His feet were as big as a house
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Hyperbole
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That watermelon is as big as a barn
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The ball bounced and hit the sky
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The ice cream sundae had toppings that were a mile high
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Assonance
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Upon an island hard to reach, the East Beach sits upon his beach.
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Onomatopeia
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Clap! Clap! Stomp! Stomp!
