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Steve Jobs is to Apple as Obama is to America - leaders
Analogy
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Food is to humans as gasoline is to cars - fuel
Analogy
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A finger is to a hand as a branch is to a tree - part
Analogy
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Shopping is to women as playing sports is for men - hobby
Analogy
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Events are to History as numbers are to Mathematics - tool
Analogy
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Analogy
Comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from.it
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Aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar
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Analogy
More extensive and elaborate tha either a simile or metaphor
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Metaphors and similes
\______ are tools to draw analogy
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Katie, come and clean your closet.
Alliteration
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Put your pen away and play the piano.
Alliteration
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Bobby read a book by the babbling brook.
Alliteration
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Gary gathered gobs of gooey garbage.
Alliteration
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Lazy lizards lay like lumps.
Alliteration
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Dan dropped a dozen dipped donuts.
Alliteration
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Zany zebras zigzag through the zoo.
Alliteration
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The wild winds whisk to the west.
Alliteration
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She sells seashells by the seashore.
Alliteration
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Change the channel, Charlie.
Alliteration
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Alliteration
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
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Allusion
\> an indirect and usually brief reference to a person, place, or event
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Allusion Categories
Historical, Biblical, Mythological, Literary
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Pandora's Box - box containing all the evils of the world
Alllusion
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Mona Lisa - an almost expressionless smile
Allusion
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Romeo and Juliet - lovers who aren't supposed to be together because
others' objections
others' objections
\> Allusion
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Achilles' Heel - one's weak point
Allusion
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Venus - roman goddess associated with love, beauty and fertility
Allusion
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Helen of Troy - most beautiful woman in the world
Allusion
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Hercules/Herculean efforts - strongest man on earth
Allusion
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Apollo - handsome man
Allusion
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Midas touch - a person who is always lucky
Allusion
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Hot as Hades - sweltering hot
Allusion
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Food of the gods - unbelievably delicious delicacies
Allusion
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The face that launched a thousand ships - any person causing a disaster
or war
or war
Allusion
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A judgement of Paris - any difficult decision
Allusion
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Leave no stone un-turned -search every minute detail
Allusion
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Beware of Greeks bearing gifts - be wary of anyone offering something;
they may have an ulterior motive
they may have an ulterior motive
Allusion
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As strong as an ox
Simile
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As light as a feather
Simile
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As busy as a bee
Simile
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As quiet as a mouse
Simile
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As quick as flash
Simile
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As dry as a bone
Simile
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As white as a sheet
Simile
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As red as a beet
Simile
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As brown as a berry
Simile
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As black as night
Simile
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As sick as a parrot
Simile
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As sick as a dog
Simile
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As deaf as a post
Simile
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As blind as a bat
Simile
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As thin as a rail
Simile
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As mad as a hatter
Simile
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Simile
A comparison of two things using like or as
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Metaphor
A comparison of two unlike things without using the word like or as.
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The snow is a white blanket.
Metaphor
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The classroom was a zoo.
Metaphor
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My teacher is a dragon.
Metaphor
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He is a night owl
Metaphor
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You are my sunshine!
Metaphor
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You are an angel.
Metaphor
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To raise a white flag
Idiom
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Yellow bellied
Idiom
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Golden opporunity
Idiom
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Chicken out
Idiom
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with flying colors
Idiom
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Chasing rainbow
Idiom
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Once a blue moon
Idiom
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A grey area
Idiom
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When pigs fly
Idiom
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to tell a white lie
Idiom
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green thumb
Idiom
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monkey see monkey do
Idiom
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born with a silver spoon
Idiom
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tickled pink
Idiom
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the bees knees
Idiom
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look through rose colored glasses
Idiom
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blind as a bat
Idiom
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Break the ice
Idiom
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Butter someone up
Idiom
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Cat got your tongue
Idiom
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Barking up the wrong tree
Idiom
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Turn a blind eye
Idiom
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Caught red-handed
Idiom
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Go the whole nine yards
Idiom
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Let one\`s hair down
Idiom
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Idiom
A phrase commonly used in everyday language that doesn't make
sense in another language.
sense in another language.
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Onomatopoeia...pronounced "ON-a-MOT-o-PEE-ya"
When a word is used
to imitate a sound. Examples include "slam!" "buzz!" and "cock-a-doodle-doo!"
to imitate a sound. Examples include "slam!" "buzz!" and "cock-a-doodle-doo!"
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squeek
Onomatopoeia
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crack
Onomatopoeia
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plop
Onomatopoeia
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achoo
Onomatopoeia
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clang
Onomatopoeia
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click
Onomatopoeia
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ssssss
Onomatopoeia
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pong
Onomatopoeia
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clack
Onomatopoeia
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ding dong
Onomatopoeia
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slam
Onomatopoeia
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clatter
Onomatopoeia
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