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Figurative Language
Question | Answer |
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Comparing two things using like or as | Simile |
Comparing two things without using like or as | Metaphor |
Giving human traits to objects or ideas | Personification |
Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect | Hyperbole |
Using several words with the same first consonant sound | alliteration |
I saying that isn't meant to be taken literally and doesn't mean what it says | Idiom |
A word that imitates the sound | onomatopoeia |
EX. the classroom is an icebox | metaphor |
EX. I have to walk 50 miles between classes each day | hyperbole |
EX.The rain made for a messy Monday morning | alliteration |
EX. the director told the actress to break a leg | idiom |
EX. I heard the swish of the ball in the net | onomatopoeia |
EX. she never stops reading | hyperbole |
EX. the West Wind whispered through the trees | Alliteration, personification |
EX. it was is welcomed as rained the desert | simile |