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Figurative language
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Metaphor | Picture by speech that implies are comparison between two relatively unlike things |
| Simile | A comparison between two unlike things usually with the words like or as |
| Personification | The giving of human qualities and an object animal or abstract idea |
| Hyperbole | An exaggerated statement used to emphasize an idea or make a point |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words which actually sound like the object or action to which they refer |
| Euphemism | A softer more inoffensive word or phrase used as a substitute for which consists too harsh or blunt when you're going to something unpleasant or embarrassing |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds |
| Paradox | A seemingly Contradictory statement which actually means since or contains something truth |
| Alliteration | The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected word |
| anaphora | A repetition of a word or phase at the beginning of successive Clauses |
| Idiom | An idiom is an expression that has a meeting apart from the meeting of an individual word it does not mean to be taken literally |
| Pun | A play on where sometimes on different meanings of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words |
| Oxymoron | When in incorgruous what contradictory terms appear side by side |
| allusion | A brief and direct reference to a person place thing or dear of historical culture literatureacy or political significance |
| Irony | Verbal irony when what is said is actually the opposite of what it means situational irony a contrast between the result of a situation and what it is usually expected dramatic Army When the audience or reader knows more than the characters |
| Analogy | In comparison between two things in order to highlight a point of similarity it is different to a metaphor simile in that it expresses a set of like relationships between two sets of terms |
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