Figurative Language definitions & examples

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Comparison of two unlike things stating one IS the other?

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metaphor

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Words/phrases that exaggerate or alter usual meanings?

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figurative language

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Comparison of unlike things using 'like', 'as', or 'resembles'.

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simile

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Gross exaggeration that cannot be true?

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hyperbole

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Human qualities assigned to nonhuman things is ...

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personification

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A group of words with a meaning different from the literal meaning is ...

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idiom

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Reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts is called ...

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allusion

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Initial consonant sound repeated in words is called...

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alliteration

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Word suggesting its own sound is...

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onomatopoeia

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A phrase with contradictory words is ...

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oxymoron