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Figurative Language
Term | Definition |
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consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words | alliteration |
a reference to someone or something famous | allusion |
comparison of two or more unlike things in order to show a similarity in their characteristics | analogy |
comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" | simile |
comparison of two unlike things where it is said one is the other | metaphor |
comparison that continues for several lines or the entire length of a work | extended metaphor |
repeated vowel sounds in a line or lines of a poem | assonance |
the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression | Idiom |
language that provides a sensory experience | imagery |
intentional exaggeration | hyperbole |
intentional understatement | litote |
words that imitate the sound that they are naming | onomatopeia |
combines two contradictory terms | oxymoron |
A nonliving thing given human or life-like qualities | personification |
use of a word or object that represents something deeper | symbolism |