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Figurative Language
Chapter 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |