2. Notes

3. Comparing two things using like or as Ex: Fred’s shirt is as blue as the sky on a cloudless winter morning.

4. Ex: Fred’s shirt is like a blue sky on a cloudless winter morning.

5. A direct comparison of two unlike things. Ex:That wave is a monster.

6. Words that sound like their meaning. A sound word.

7. An extreme exaggeration Ex: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!

8. An object that stands for an idea.

9. The repetition of Consonant sounds in words that are close together. Ex: “…all summer in the sound of the sea” --Walt Whitman

10. The repetition of Vowel sounds in words that are close together. Ex: In the dimness of her fickle mind, she called again to him.

11. Giving human qualities to non-human things Ex: The darkness reached out to the campers. Fred’s goldfish begged for more friends. The day awoke in a splash of color.

12. Write a sentence using personification. The wind blew against the trunks, trying to hurl them into the raging, black waters of the Pacific.

13. A reference to a person, place, or event from literature, art, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science. For example: “I Have a Dream” alludes to the song “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee”

14. IMAGERY Language that appeals to the senses.