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Figurative Language
Chapter 3
Term | Definition |
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Allegory | device used to prevent an idea that extends over an entire work. |
Allusion | reference to a well known place, literary or art work, famous person or historical event. |
Analogy | extended explanation of something unfamiler to explain by comparision of something familer. |
Euphemism | mild descriptive word used instead of offensive or sexist term. |
Hyperbole | overstatement or exaggeration. |
Idiom | expression whose literal meaning is not signed by what the words suggest. |
Imagery | use of any words that evoke sensations of sight, sound, touch, smelling, or taste. |
Irony | contrast between what is said or done and what is really intended to be said or done. |
Metaphor | comparision of two unlike things without using like or as. |
Oxymoron | combines terms which usually contradict each other but may still be true. |
Personification | refers to animals, ideas, or things having human characteristics. |
Simile | comparison between two unlike things using like or as. |
Symbol | object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself, and also represents another meaning. |
Onomatopoei | words that sound like what they describe |
Alliteration | writers repeat the same letter or sound in words |