Figurative Language Hyperbole Personification Decide Whether The Excerpt – Flashcards
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Imagery
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Descriptive language that create a picture in your mind
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Hyperbole
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exaggeration
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Alliteration
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words that have the same beginning sounds together
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Pun
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A play on words using the double meaning for fun
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Idiom
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an expression that says one thing but means something else
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Figurative Language
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word play
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Assonance
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repeating vowel sounds
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Simile
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Comparing two unlike things using words such as "like" or "as" Example: The sisters fought like cats and dogs!
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Metaphor
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Comparing two unlike things NOT using the words "like" or "as." Example: How could she marry a snake like that?
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Personification
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Giving an object or animal human feelings, thoughts, attitudes or actions.
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Hyperbole
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Extreme exaggeration for effect.
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Alliteration
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Repeated beginning consonant sounds. Example: The fog filtered over the field finally hiding the fence.
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Idiom
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A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. Example: Seeing the world through rose colored glasses = not seeing clearly or ignoring the bad in life.
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Personification
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Example sentence: The delicious bread danced in my stomach.
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Idiom
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Example sentence: When singing at church, my mom always said "break a leg."
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Alliteration
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Example sentence: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
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Hyperbole
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Example sentence: I've said that a million times.
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Metaphor
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Example sentence: Matthew is a tall, cool drink of water.
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Idiom
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Example sentence: Getting an A on this test is a piece of cake.
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Simile
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Example sentence: Jose sleeps like a log.
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Idiom
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A phrase commonly used in everyday language that doesn't make sense in another language.
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Metaphor
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A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.
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Simile
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A comparison of two unlike things using "Like" or "As."
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Personification
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Giving human characteristics to something non-human.
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Hyperbole
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Extreme exaggeration
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Alliteration
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Definition: Repetition of consonant sounds.
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Onomatopoeia
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Examples: Bang!, hiss, drip, whoosh
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Figurative Language
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Cannot be taken literally (word for word)
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Hyperbole
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An extreme exaggeration or stretching of the truth.
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Hyperbole (Example)
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Charlie gazed hopelessly at the endless pile of bills stretching across the counter.
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Hyperbole (Example)
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That woman has no self-control.
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That was the easiest question in the world.
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Nothing can bother him.
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I can smell pizza from a mile away.
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I went home and made the biggest sandwich of all time.
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My dad is always working.
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Allie has a million pairs of shoes in her closet.
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Old Mr. Johnson has been teaching here since the Stone Age.
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Hyperbole (Example)
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Forget knocking it out of the park, Frank can knock a baseball off the continent.
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Hyperbole (Example)
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The lesson was taking forever.
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I've seen this movie at least 80,000 times.
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Vanessa never has anything interesting to say.
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These shoes are killing me.
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Shauna does everything for him.
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Hyperbole (Example)
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Christmas will never come.
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He walked down the road to nowhere.
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Hyperbole (Example)
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My dad knows everything about cars.
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Max is the fastest thing on two feet.
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Basketball is the only thing that ever mattered to him.
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Nothing can stop these guys.
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My mom is going to kill me.
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Nobody can beat level six.27. You've made me the happiest man alive, Rita.
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We'll be best friends forever.
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I will never say "never."
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Chris won't drive her home because she lives on the other side of the universe.
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The only thing that he ever wants to do is play that game.
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John always knows the right thing to say.
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Phoebe would be content anywhere.
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Nothing could ever go wrong with his plan.
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Pam was skinny enough to jump through a keyhole.
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Jasmine never forgets anything.
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Everyone knows that.
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41. Go to the park? That's the best idea ever.
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I'd move mountains for her.
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Tanya never stops talking.
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I can't do anything right.
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Janet worked her fingers to the bone.
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Jack was thirsty enough to drink a river dry.
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She is perfect in every way.
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Your dad is the smartest guy in the world.
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Hyperbole (Example)
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We tried everything that we could.
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Hyperbole (Example)
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I could listen to that song on repeat forever.
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The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky
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stars danced
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The run down house appeared depressed
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house appeared depressed
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Lightning danced across the sky
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lightning danced
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I heard the last piece of pie calling my name
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pie calling
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The ocean waves lashed out at the boat and the storm continued to brew.
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ocean waves lashed out
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The fire ran wild
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fire ran
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The book was so popular it flew off the shelves
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the book flew
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The blizzard swallowed the town
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blizzard swallowed
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My life came screeching to a halt
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life halted
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My alarm clock yells at me every morning
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alarm clock yells
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The popcorn leapt out of the bowl
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popcorn leaped
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My car headlights winked at me
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car headlights winked
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The camera loves me
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camera loves
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The evil tree was lurking in the shadows
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tree lurked
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The waffle jumped up out of the toaster
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waffle jumped
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He did not realize that his last chance was walking out the door
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chance walking
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The candle fame danced in the dark
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flame danced
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Her life passed her by
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life passed
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The car, painted lime green, raced by screaming for attention
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car screamed
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The phone awakened with a mighty ring
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phone awakened
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Similie
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Old marley was as dead as a doornail
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Similie
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Hard and sharp as a flint from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire,secret,and self-contained,and solitary as an oyster
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Metaphor
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He carried his own low temperature always about with him;he iced his office in the dog days;and didnt thaw it one degree on christmas
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Personification
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The heaviest rain,and snow,and hail,and sleet,could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect
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Personification
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"We chose this time,because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices."
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Personification
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The ancient tower of a church whose gruff old bell was always peeping slyly down at Scrooge...
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Personification
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The owner of one scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed, stooped down at Scrooge's keyhole to regale him with a christmas carol
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Similie
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It was not in impenetrable shadow, as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cell.
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Personification
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Upon its coming in, the dying flame leapes up as though it cried,"I know him!Marleys Ghost!" and fella again
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Metaphor
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"On the wings of the wind," replied the Ghost.
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The deadlings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
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Personification
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...if night had beaten off bright day and taken possession of the world.
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Onomatopeia
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"A quarter past,"said Scrooge counting. "Ding,dong!"
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Hyperbole
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He was conscious of a thousand odors floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts,and hopes,and joys,and cares long, long forgotten!
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Similie
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...back before you could have got to twelve,panting like race-horses.
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Personification
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...blew the fire, until the slow potatoes,bubbling up,knocked loudly at the saucepan lid to be let out and peeled.
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Personification
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And bore him off in the wash house that he might hear the puddinf singing in the copper
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Similie
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"As good as gold," said Bob,"and better."
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...flushed but smiling proudly with the pudding like a speckled cannon ball
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Personification
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While chestnuts on the fire sputtered and crackled noisily
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The noisy little Cratchits were as still as statues in one corner
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I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy
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Onomatopeia
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Clash,clash,hammer;ding,dong, bell!
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Hyperbole
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"I am much obliged to you! I thank you fifty times. Bless you!"
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