Triple A

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Alliteration: repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.Example: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

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Allusion: A reference to a specific person, place, or thing.Example: "She is as pretty as the Mona Lisa."

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Assonance: Repeated vowel sounds.
Example: "The cat sat on the mat."

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Hyperbole: An extravagant exaggeration.
Example: "My backpack weighs a ton!"

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Imagery: Creating pictures for the senses.
Example: "The pitter-patter of the rain against the window."

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16	"The water was oily smooth."	You get a better description of how the water actually feels.
2	"Juana went to the fire pit and uncovered a coal and fanned it alive while she broke little pieces of brush over it."	Describes what she saw and did. It helps you get a better idea of exactly what going on.

Metaphor: A comparison when one becomes the other.
Example: "The book was a passport to adventure."

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21	"The news swept on past the brush houses, and it washed in a foaming wave into the town of stone and plaster."	It is comparing the news of the pearl to a wave.
47	"A stout slow man sat in an office waiting. His face was fatherly and benign, and his eyes twinkled with friendship."	It is comparing his face to a fathers face.

Onomatopoeia: Words whose sound suggests its meaning.
Example: "The bees buzzed."

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72	"Her mouth was still swollen where Kino had struck her, and big flies buzzed around the cut on her chin."	The word "Buzzed" is an onomatopoeia.

Personification: Giving human qualities to ideas and things.
Example: "Her stomach growled."

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27	"The dark was almost in,and Juana's fire threw shadows on the brush walls when the whisper came in..."	Fire cannot throw shadows or anything for that matter.

Simile: A comparison using "like" or "as."
Example: "She floated in like a cloud."

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48	"But the buyer's eyes had become as steady, and cruel, and unwinking as a hawk's eyes..."	It is comparing the buyer to a hawk using "as".
27	"'Kino,' he said softly 'thou art named after a great man and a great father of the church.' He made it sound like a benediction."	Comparing his words to a benediction using "like".

Symbol: Representation of somehting complex, general, or abstract.
Example: "The Statue of Liberty symbolizes the democratic ideal."

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