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A one-page CAPS Grade 5 English poster on figures of speech (Vocabulary), with the key ideas, key words and a tip to remember.
A simile compares two things using the word like or as.
as brave as a lion
He ran like the wind.
A metaphor says that one thing is another thing. It does not use like or as.
My bed is a cloud.
Time is a thief.
Personification gives human actions or feelings to something that is not human.
The wind cried in the trees at night.
The old chair groaned under him.
Alliteration repeats the same first sound in words that are close together.
Six slippery snakes slid slowly.
Peter picked purple plums.
An onomatopoeic word sounds like the noise it describes.
splash, buzz, bang, sizzle, thud
My heart was a drum: it beat hard and fast.
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