Third Conditional

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Second Conditional

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LITERARY DEVICES

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Ways to Use Personification

The following sentences use the personification technique. See if you can identify which part of the word or phrase is the personification. The answers are below:

1. The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
2. The run down house appeared depressed.
3. The first rays of morning tiptoed through the meadow.
4. She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.
5. He did not realize that his last chance was walking out the door.
6. The bees played hide and seek with the flowers as they buzzed from one to another.
7. The wind howled its mighty objection.
8. The snow swaddled the earth like a mother would her infant child.
9. The river swallowed the earth as the water continued to rise higher and higher.
10. Time flew and before we knew it, it was time for me to go home.

    Examples of Alliteration

    Here are some examples:
    • Come and clean your closet.
    • The big bad bear attacked all the little bunnies in the forest.
    • Shut the shutter before it makes you shudder.
    • Go and gather the green leaves in the lawn.
    • Please put your pen away and play the piano.
    • Round and round she ran until she realized she was running round and round.
    • Out with the only open tin of tuna.

Examples of Onomatopoeia

An onomatopoeia poem by Australian poet Lee Emmett also illustrates many onomatopoeia related to water:

2. water plops into pond

   splish-splash downhill

   warbling magpies in tree

   trilling, melodic thrill

   
   

   whoosh, passing breeze

   flags flutter and flap

   frog croaks, bird whistles

   babbling bubbles from tap

   Simile Examples

   Kids can have fun using these simile examples that begin with “as”:
   • As American as apple pie
   • As big as an elephant
   • As black as coal
   • As blind as a bat
   • As bold as brass
   • As boring as watching paint dry  
   • As brave as a lion
   • As bright as a button
   • As busy as a bee
   • As cheap as dirt 
   • As clean as a whistle
   • Like a dream
   • (Soar) like an eagle
   • Like fingernails on a chalkboard
   • Like a fish
   • (Racing) like a frightened rabbit
   • (Have eyes) like a hawk
   • (Eat) like a horse
   • (Sleep) like a log
   • Like a moth to the flame
   • (Eat) like a pig
   • Like a pile of rocks
   • Like a rose
   • Like a screaming baby
   • Like stars
   • (Meandered) like a stream
   • Like two peas in a pod
   • (Exploded) like a volcano

Metaphor Examples 

1. The detective listened to her tales with a wooden face.
2. She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show.
3. The typical teenage boy’s room is a disaster area.
4. What storms then shook the ocean of my sleep.
5. The children were roses grown in concrete gardens, beautiful and forlorn.

Object Object questions

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