Figurative Practice 5 Ready 1
Figurative Practice 5 Ready 1
Practice # 12 Date :
1.Read the following sentences and write what figures of speech are used (metaphor /
simile, personification)
1. By the time we stopped at the little white house, a sea of smiling faces, young and
old, surrounded the car.
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4.“He’s two but I can’t let him down. He’ll take off like a shot.”
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5. I opened the door to go outside, but the raindrops laughed at my foolish plan.
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6.“We jumped down from the straw bales and took off like a shot out of a cannon.”
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2.Write one sentence showing the alliteration technique.
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4. Make up similes of your own by copying and finishing these sentences.
For example:
As good as gold
1. As heavy as ………………………………………………….
2. As cold as……………………………………………………..
3. As hard as……………………………………………………………
5. As cool as ……………………………………………………………..
6. As quick as ……………………………………………………………..