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THE fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. by Carl Sandburg Metaphor: Compares. Does NOT use like or as The Ferrari was a personal jet, set to take off before dawn. His teeth were hardened blue cheese nuggets, speckled with green and black. When he ate, he was a crocodile, opening wide and snapping his jaws suddenly for the kill.TRANSCRIPT
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FlintAn emerald is as green as
grass,A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.A diamond is a brilliant stone,To catch the world's desire;An opal holds a fiery spark;
But a flint holds a fire.by Christina Rossetti
Simile: Compares. Uses like or as.
Blue BraceletYour bracelet is shiny,like water on ice.It clicks and it tinkles.It's shiny-blue nice.
by Denise Rodgers
THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.by Carl Sandburg
Metaphor: Compares. Does NOT use like or as
• The Ferrari was a personal jet, set to take off before dawn.
• His teeth were hardened blue cheese nuggets, speckled with green and black.
• When he ate, he was a crocodile, opening wide and snapping his jaws suddenly for the kill.
Stanza: A separate section in a poem.
My dad gave me one dollar bill‘Cause I’m his smartest son,And I swapped it for two shiny quarters‘Cause two is more than one! And then I took the quartersAnd traded them to LouFor three dimes—I guess he don’t knowThat three is more than two! Just then, along came old blind BatesAnd just ‘cause he can’t seeHe gave me four nickels for my three dimes,And four is more than three! And I took the nickels to Hiram CoombsDown at the seed-feed store,And the fool gave me five pennies for them,And five is more than four! And then I went and showed my dad,And he got red in the cheeksAnd closed his eyes and shook his head—Too proud of me to speak!
by Shel Silverstein
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The wind is nowa roaring, smashing
monster of destruction,raking all man's work
from the valleys,from the vales,
and sends them spinning…
Personification: Giving human qualities to something that is not human.
Betty Botter bought some butter,but, she said, the butter’s bitter;if I put it in my batterit will make my batter bitter,but a bit of better butterwill make my batter better.
Alliteration: Repeating sounds close together, or in a pattern.
Boom!Went the food
trays. Clap! Clap!
Goes the teacher.Rip!
Went the plastic bag.
Munch! Munch!Go the students.
Slurp!!!Went the straws.
WhisperIs what half the kids
in the roomare doing.Crunch! Crunch!
gothe candy bars.
Onomatopoeia:Words that are spelled like they sound.