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A one-page CAPS Grade 7 English poster on figures of speech and sound devices (Vocabulary), with the key ideas, key words and a tip to remember.
A simile compares two things with like or as. A metaphor says that one thing is another.
Her laughter was like music in the room.
The lake was a mirror of silver.
Personification gives human actions or feelings to an object, an animal or an idea.
The wind chased the clouds across the sky.
Hyperbole is a big exaggeration that is not meant to be believed. An oxymoron puts two opposite ideas together.
I have waited a hundred years for this bus!
a cruel kindness
Alliteration repeats the first sound in words that are close together. Assonance repeats a vowel sound inside nearby words.
Slowly the silver snake slid by.
The old goat rowed slowly home.
An onomatopoeic word sounds like the noise it names.
Whoosh! The train rushed past, and the bridge rattled.
“The sea hissed” is onomatopoeia. We hear the waves and they sound like a snake.
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