Write the definition of the following literary devices. Also give five examples
of each. (a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Alliteration
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A simile is a phrase that uses a comparison to describe.
eg:-You were as brave as a lion.
They fought like cats and dogs.
He is as funny as a barrel of monkeys.
This house is as clean as a whistle.
He is as strong as an ox.
a metaphor is a word or phrase that is used in an imaginative way to show that somebody/something has the same qualities as another thing.
eg:- John's suggestion was just a Band-Aid for the problem.
The cast on his broken leg was a plaster shackle.
Laughter is the music of the soul.
America is a melting pot.
Her lovely voice was music to his ears.
Alliteration is a poetic technique or literary stylistic device where a series of words in a sentence have the same first consonant sound. In other words: alliteration is when the beginning sound of words is repeated in close succession.
eg:- Peter Piped Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.
Three grey geese in a field grazing. Grey were the geese and green was the grazing.
Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said this butter's bitter; if I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter, ...
I need not your needs, They're needless to me,