Word thingies

Simile: Directly comparing two things using “like” or “as”

The boys scurry about the beach like stranded ants

Metaphor: Directly comparing two things and saying that they are the same “are” “is” (“The clouds are floating sheep”)

fire is salvation, safety, and society

Personification: Giving an inanimate object a personality, describing it using human/animal features or actions(“The mountain presides over the beach, watching for intruders”)

Onomatopoeia: A word that makes you think of a distinctive sound, like “boom” “crash” “woof”

BOOM went the rock against the cliff on it’s deadly journey.

Alliteration: Words that start with the same letter, not to be confused with rhyme (Ethan Eats Extremely Egalitarian Elitist Extremists)

Assonance: also known as rhyme, where words nearby each other have similar sounds.

(jack attacks the packs black back shack

Rule of three:

The conch is a symbol of Hope, Society and Democracy

Hyperbole: exaggerations to amplify something that are meant not to be take literally

Thousands of savages swarmed out onto the beach after Ralph

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