Helgerson - Figurative Language terms
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| show | figurative language
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| words that imitate the sounds they name | show 🗑
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| show | alliteration
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| show | simile
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| comparing two unlike things by saying one thing IS the other | show 🗑
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| show | simile
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| Don't be such a mule. | show 🗑
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| Our cat is so fast; he's a bolt of lightning! | show 🗑
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| show | personfication
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| The leaves danced in the wind. | show 🗑
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| an expression that can't be understood from the meanings of its individual words | show 🗑
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| show | idiom
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| a huge exaggeration used for emphasis | show 🗑
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| I've got a ton of papers to grade tonight. | show 🗑
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| saying one thing, but meaning another | show 🗑
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| expecting something to happen that turns out quite differently | show 🗑
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| when the reader or audience knows something that the characters in the story don't | show 🗑
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| show | setting
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| the use of words that appeal to the five senses | show 🗑
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| Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers | show 🗑
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| show | onomatopoeia
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| when something stands or represents something greater than itself | show 🗑
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| show | symbolism
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| show | verbal irony
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| show | allusion
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| You're the George Washington of our community. | show 🗑
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| show | analogy
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| a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality tells a possible truth | show 🗑
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| When she walks in the hair, her hair is shiny, kind of like your nose hairs after you sneeze. | show 🗑
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| I can exist everything except temptation. | show 🗑
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