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    This document defines and provides examples of 10 common language devices: simile, metaphor, oxymoron, juxtaposition, rhetorical question, alliteration, sibilance, personification, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia. It explains that similes and metaphors involve comparison, oxymorons use opposing words together, and juxtaposition compares contrasting ideas. Alliteration and sibilance involve repeating sounds, and personification gives non-human things human traits. Hyperbole involves exaggeration, and onomatopoeia describes sounds. Repetition is also noted as repeating words or phrases.

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    This document defines and provides examples of 10 common language devices: simile, metaphor, oxymoron, juxtaposition, rhetorical question, alliteration, sibilance, personification, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia. It explains that similes and metaphors involve comparison, oxymorons use opposing words together, and juxtaposition compares contrasting ideas. Alliteration and sibilance involve repeating sounds, and personification gives non-human things human traits. Hyperbole involves exaggeration, and onomatopoeia describes sounds. Repetition is also noted as repeating words or phrases.

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    This document defines and provides examples of 10 common language devices: simile, metaphor, oxymoron, juxtaposition, rhetorical question, alliteration, sibilance, personification, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia. It explains that similes and metaphors involve comparison, oxymorons use opposing words together, and juxtaposition compares contrasting ideas. Alliteration and sibilance involve repeating sounds, and personification gives non-human things human traits. Hyperbole involves exaggeration, and onomatopoeia describes sounds. Repetition is also noted as repeating words or phrases.

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    Language devices

    (1) Simile
    When you compare two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’ for example He ran like a
    Cheetah, He was as big as a mountain.
    (2) Metaphor
    When you compare 2 things by saying something is something. Eg. My
    daughter is a princess .
    (3) Oxymoron
    When you have two opposites side by side no words in between. In Romeo
    and Juliet, we learn how love hurts. I have dark light.
    (4) Juxtaposition
    When you compare two contrasting ideas within a paragraph.
    (5) Rhetorical question
    When you ask a question in a piece of writing.
    (6) Alliteration
    You have words in a row stating with same letter. These words can have
    words betn. The big blue ball bounced blissfully down the road.
    (7) Sibilance
    It is an alliteration but of the ‘S’ letter or the S sound. Snake slithered
    silently and slowly down the road.
    (8) Personification
    When you give a non-human thing a human quality. The pen is laying on the
    table. The door was waving at me. The leaves on the tree were looking at me.
    (9) Hyperbole
    When you exaggerate.
    (10) Onomatopoeia
    The words that describe sounds. The clock went tick tock.
    (11) Repetition
    When you repeat a word or a phrase throughout the piece of writing.

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