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Figurative Language
Types of Figurative Language
Definition | Figure of Speech |
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Repeated Consonants at the beginning of words | Alliteration |
A figure of speech stating two things are similar | Metaphor |
Giving human qualities to animals, ideas or things | Personification |
Words whose sounds suggest it's meaning | Onomatopoeia |
An expression that has a meaning that is different from it's literal meaning | Idiom |
A comparision using "like" or "as" | Simile |
A play on words that involves different senses of the same word or the similiar sense or sounds of a different word | Pun |
An extravagant exaggeration | Hyperbole |