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Figurative Language
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imagery | create images in your mind, changes how your senses perceive things |
| Simile | Uses "like" or "as" to compare things that are different form each other |
| Metaphor | Compares two different things without using "like" or "as" |
| Personification | gives human characteristics to object and aspects of nature |
| Symbolism | A symbol in literary work that stands for and idea |
| Hyperbole | adds force to words through exaggeration (extreme exaggeration) |
| understatement | adds force to a statement by presenting it in a weak way |
| idiom/figurative phrase | a group of words that together mean something entirely different from the individual words |
| allusions | images that are suggest by our culture; referring to another literary work; eg: I am going to turn in to a pumpkin at 12:00 AM... |
| Verse | arrangements of words in lines (poems) |
| Theme | the idea that the poet wants you to understand (big idea) |
| Speaker | expresses ideas and point of view |
| rhyme | repeated sounds at the end of lines/words |
| alliteration | repetition of the same constant sound |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate the sound of something |
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