Figurative Language and Literary Devices

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Type of figurative language giving human traits to nonhuman subjects.

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Personification

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Figure of speech using 'like' or 'as' for direct comparison.

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Simile

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Figurative language using exaggeration.

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Hyperbole

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Use of words that imitate sounds.

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Onomatopoeia

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This figure of speech describes something as if it were something else.

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Metaphor

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Expression with a specific meaning in a language or region, not to be taken literally.

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Idiom

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Joke based on homophones.

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Pun

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Brief, indirect reference to a significant person, place, thing, or idea.

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Allusion

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Comparison of similar yet different things.

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Analogy

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Literary device using the same word/phrase multiple times for effect.

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Repetition