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SIMILE A comparison using “like” or “as” Examples: The bear was so tall it was like a tree! The bear was as tall as a tree! The fish was like a squirmy worm. The fish was as squirmy as a worm.
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Kelsi Phillips
RHETORICAL DEVICES
RHETORICAL DEVICES: Simile Metaphor Personification Imagery
Sight Hearing Touch Taste Feel
SIMILE
A comparison using “like” or “as”
Examples:The bear was so tall it was like a tree!
The bear was as tall as a tree!
The fish was like a squirmy worm.
The fish was as squirmy as a worm.
METAPHOR
A comparison NOT using the words like or as.
Examples:My brother is a bear when he wakes up in the morning.
My best friend is a monkey when she’s on the playground.
The dancer was a graceful butterfly on the stage.
SIMILIE METAPHOR
My pencil was as sharp as a sword after I pulled it out of the pencil sharpener.
My pencil was a sword when I pulled it out of the pencil sharpener.
The sky is like a blanket stretching over the entire world.
The sky is a blanket stretching over the entire world.
The very first time I drank a slurpee, I got a headache as big as Mt. Everest.
The very first time I drank a slurpee, I got a headache the size of Mt. Rushmore.
The pinball was like a boulder rolling down the mountain as it crashed into the black hole.
The pinball was a boulder rolling down a mountain until it crashed into the black hole.
PERSONIFICATIONGiving animals or non-living objects the
characteristics or qualities of a human being.
Examples:Talking animalsDancing dressersSinging clocksAngry dishes
IMAGERYDevice used in writing to appeal to the five
senses.
“The pie baked in the hot oven as Grandma scooped cold ice cream from the freezer. As the timer buzzed, the aroma of apples and
cinnamon filled the air. My sister and I crunched through the leaves to reach the
back door. We knew that our slices would be waiting for us on the table.”
Can you identify the words in the passage that are examples of imagery?
WORDS THAT APPEAL TO OUR SENSE OF:
SMELL:aromasweetsmoky
TOUCH:roughsoftsmoothbumpyserrated
silkyrubberwarmcoldhot
TASTE:deliciousyummysweetsourbitter
HEARING:loudscreechingsoftclappingpounding
SIGHT:beautifulflowingunclearcloudymistyshiningbellowingrollingfastslow
