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Study guide/ fig. Lg
figurative language
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |