Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Parts of speech from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

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Colloquialisms: Muggles, Mudblood, Merlin’s beard, Galloping gargoyles, Hold your hippogriffs

Metaphor:

“Well, first the committee took turns in talking about ‘why we were there’. Then I stood up and said my bit, how Buckbeak was a good hippogriff, always cleaned his feathers. And then Lucius Malfoy got up…”

Onomatopoeia:

"SMASH! The door was hit with such force that it swung clean off its hinges and with a deafening crash landed flat on the floor." (p.46)

Hyperbole:

"mountains of roast and boiled potatoes" (p.203)

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone