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Figurative Language
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Term | Definition |
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Simile | comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
Metaphor | Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as saying something is something else |
Personification | Giving human characteristics to something that is not human |
Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration |
pun | A play on words intended to be humorous. |
Alliteration | repetition in two or more nearby words of initial consonant sounds |
onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named |
allusion | a reference typically brief to a person place thing event or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar |
idiom | a phrase whose non - literal meaning must be applied |
Irony | an unexpected outcome |