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figurative language

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Hyperbole   Extreme or gross exaggeration  
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Onomatopoeia   Sound words or the formation of words that imitate what they stand for  
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Alliteration   The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of several words to make a special effect  
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Idiom   An expression that doesn't make sense or means something different than the actual literal meaning of the words  
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Personification   To give human like qualities to nonhuman objects  
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Simile   The comparison of two seemingly unlike things using like, as, or resembles  
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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  
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Idiom   An expression that doesn't make sense or has a different meaning  
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