https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w Definitions and examples en-us 2019-04-02 13:18:23 UTC 2024-10-02 01:10:37 UTC hello@padlet.com mitcmoor195 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347644569 Simile definition: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid, using the words “as” or “like”.
Simile examples:Doing dishes is as boring as school(our own), He’s as blind as a bat(internet)

Metaphor Definition: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable, without using the words “as” or “like”.
Metaphor Examples: My life is a train wreck(our own), Light of my life(Internet)]]> 2019-04-02 14:20:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347644569 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347644780 Idom and Hyperbole]]> 2019-04-02 14:21:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347644780 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347645575 A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.]]> 2019-04-02 14:22:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347645575 kairridd860 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347645785 Defenition Of Personification - Giving human traits or characteristics to something that isn’t human.
Examples: The wind howled in the night. The lightning danced across the sky.
         
Defenition Of Imagery - Descriptive writing that appeals to the senses.
Examples - The wind howled furiously in the middle of the stormy night. The lightning danced gracefully across the midnight black sky.]]> 2019-04-02 14:22:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347645785 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347645963 Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.]]> 2019-04-02 14:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347645963 trisleis722 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347645986 the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.]]> 2019-04-02 14:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347645986 colebaie392 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347646531 The repetition of identical or similar sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in “on scrolls of silver snowy sentences]]> 2019-04-02 14:24:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347646531 dammkuep218 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347647267  ]]> 2019-04-02 14:25:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347647267 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347647894 A word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it]]> 2019-04-02 14:26:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347647894 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347648333 A word that describes a noun]]> 2019-04-02 14:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347648333 trisleis722 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347648477 the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ).]]> 2019-04-02 14:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347648477 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347649025 Definition: when something is described by comparing it to something else. 
Example 1: This coffee shop is an ice box. 
Example 2: He ran as fast as a cheetah. ]]> 2019-04-02 14:28:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347649025 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347649288 Words like “amazing” or “funny” are examples of adjectives.]]> 2019-04-02 14:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347649288 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347649343 My grandma is as old as the hills - because it isn’t actually serious, it is meant to be taken as a joke
I could die of exhaustion - because you are not actually gonna die and you are just tired]]> 2019-04-02 14:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347649343 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347649527 The phrase “it’s raining cats and dogs” is an idiom as there aren’t actually pets falling from the sky. So is “cool as a cucumber” as the temperature of a cucumber is relative and isn’t constant.]]> 2019-04-02 14:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347649527 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347649663 She sells sea shells by the sea store]]> 2019-04-02 14:29:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347649663 colebaie392 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347649888 When you say an onomatopoeic word, the utterance itself is reminiscent of the sound to which the word refers.]]> 2019-04-02 14:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347649888 noahpool402 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347650608 Our Examp
Their Example: She sells seashells ]]> 2019-04-02 14:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347650608 kaityoun884 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347651349 Definitions]]> 2019-04-02 14:32:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347651349 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347652782 Definition: A word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.

Our Definition: A word that describes a noun.

Examples: Words like “amazing” and “funny” are examples of adjectives.]]> 2019-04-02 14:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347652782 noahpool402 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347652850 Bang, Bap, Drip ]]> 2019-04-02 14:35:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347652850 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347653696  Boom, Splash, crack, pop]]> 2019-04-02 14:36:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347653696 jarekuep944 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347653730 Group Five Figurative Language And Adjectives. ]]> 2019-04-02 14:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/347653730 dammkuep218 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/348230303 Sorry]]> 2019-04-03 18:31:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/348230303 https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/348231620 9]]> 2019-04-03 18:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_d1234/jpky3bgspa4w/wish/348231620