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Figurative Language
STUDY
Term | Definition |
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Simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') |
Metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |
personification | the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. |
onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote |
hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
idiom | an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up |
irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs |
symbolism | the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning |
imagery | the ability to form mental images of things or events |