LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
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personification
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metaphor
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simile
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onomatopoeia
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Detailed explanation-1: -SIMILE : comparison using like or as She runs like a cheetah. METAPHOR: comparison using is, was, were He is a beast at basketball. A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, an object, or an idea.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hyperbole – An extreme exaggeration. Example… I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
Detailed explanation-3: -A simile is used with the aim of sparking an interesting connection in the reader’s mind. An example of a simile is, “The cat sat in the chair like a king overlooking his kingdom.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Similes and metaphors are both figures of speech that are used to make a comparison between two things that are not alike. The difference is that similes make the comparison by saying that something is like something else but metaphors make the comparison by saying that something is something else.