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Literary Examples
Flashcards do conjunto (41)
- 1You can’t judge a book by its cover.Idiom
- 2All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely playersMetaphor
- 3But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one wordPersonification
- 4I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountainHyperbole
- 5Every cloud has a silver liningIdiom
- 6Toby manipulated the people in his life as though they were chess piecesSimile
- 7Kisses are the flowers of love in bloom.Metaphor
- 8Kathy arrived at the grocery store with an army of childrenHyperbole
- 9The detective listened to her tales with a wooden faceMetaphor
- 10Money is the only friend that I can count onPersonification
- 11David’s jokes were like flat soda to the children, surprisingly unpleasantSimile
- 12I can smell pizza from a mile a way.Hyperbole
- 13The darling dog danced along with the songAlliteration
- 14Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breezeImagery
- 15Peggy heard the last piece of cheesecake in the refrigerator calling her namePersonification
- 16“Food?” Chris inquired, popping out of his seat like a toaster strudel.Simile
- 17Her eyes were firefliesMetaphor
- 18Over the weekend, the flowers flutter furiously in the wind.Alliteration
- 19The eerie silence was shattered by her scream.Imagery
- 20The world does not care to hear your sad storiesPersonificaiton
- 21Her face blossomed when she caught a glance of him.Imagery
- 22David and Alex have been in this class since the Stone Age.Hyperbole
- 23"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is."Onomatopeia
- 24With wonder and willingness, the young boy happily workedAlliteration
- 25The cactus saluted any visitor brave enough to travel the scorched landPersonification
- 26Jingle, rattle, squeal, boingOnomatopoeia
- 27The typical teenage boy’s room is a disaster area.Metaphor
- 28Allie has a million pairs of shoes in her closet.Hyperbole
- 29The music coursed through us, shaking our bodies as if it came from within us.Imagery
- 30Their prayers were like mayflies in June.Simile
- 31The students mistakenly missed making class on Friday.Alliteration
- 32What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle. tinkle, tinkle,Onamonatopeia
- 33The giant tree was ablaze with the orange, red, and yellow leaves that were beginning to make their descent to the ground.Imagery
- 34Waves of spam emails inundated his inbox.Personification
- 35Patty drank from a bottomless glass of Kool-AidHyperbole
- 36The F-16 swooped down like an eagle after its prey.Simile
- 37Forgive me; they were delicious, so sweet and so coldImagery
- 38He was courageous as a lion.Simile
- 39Grandma gave us gravy and grapesAlliteration
- 40The kids were starving to death by the time they went to lunch.Hyperbole
- 41The stars danced around the night skyPersonification
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- 9th grade English FlashCards sobre Literary Examples, criado por David Moore em 31-03-2017.
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