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Study guide/ fig. Lg
figurative language
Term | Definition |
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Hyperbole | Extreme or gross exaggeration |
Onomatopoeia | Sound words or the formation of words that imitate what they stand for |
Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of several words to make a special effect |
Idiom | An expression that doesn't make sense or means something different than the actual literal meaning of the words |
Personification | To give human like qualities to nonhuman objects |
Simile | The comparison of two seemingly unlike things using like, as, or resembles |
Metaphor | The comparison of two unlike things in which the one becomes the other....kind of like name calling. Do not use like, as, or resembles to compare |
Idiom | An expression that doesn't make sense or has a different meaning |