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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE WHEN YOU USE WORDS IN AN IMAGINATIVE WAY TO EXPRESS IDEAS THAT ARE NOT LITERALLY TRUE
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Figurative Language Simile Metaphor Personification Onomatopoeia
Symbol Hyperbole Alliteration Idioms Oxymoron
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Simile A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike subjects using like or as. She is as good as gold. The book came flapping like a wounded duck.
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Metaphor A figure of speech in which something is described as if it were something else, or a comparison between unlike things. Mr. Collins is a bear in the mornings.
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Personification A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject (animal, object, or idea) is given human characteristics. The tea kettle sang happily.
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Onomatopoeia The use of words that imitate sounds.
The cooking bacon’s aroma and sizzle woke me.
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Symbol Anything that stands for or represents something else.
An eagle often represents freedom.
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Hyperbole An exaggeration for effect.
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
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Alliteration The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
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Idioms An expression that has a meaning all its own.
It’s raining cats and dogs outside.
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Oxymoron A figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas are combined. She is just a poor little rich girl.
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