figurative language definition and example
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| Simile | Definition: A comparison of two things using LIKE or AS.
Example:The mall was as busy AS a zoo.
The mall was LIKE a zoo.
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| Metaphor | Definition: A comparison of two things by saying that one thing is a dissimilar thing. Most of the time using WAS or IS.
Example: The mall IS a zoo
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| Hyperbole | Definition: Something that cannot possibly be true
Example: After swim my arms weigh a TON.
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| Personification | Definition: giving human qualities to a non-human thing.
Example: ... as if the rock had started crying.
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| Idiom | Definition: A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meanings.
Example: We flipped the house upside down to find the missing snake.
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| Alteration | Definition: The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.
Example: My sister Sally sat still and strait for seven days.
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| allusion | Definition: a reference to a famous person, place, or thing from a book, history, or a type of art.
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| onomatopoeia | Definition: words whose sounds suggest their meaning
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