Understanding Figurative Language

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Simile

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Comparison using "like" or "as"

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Metaphor

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Direct comparison without "like" or "as"

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Personification

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Giving human traits to non-human things

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration for effect

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that imitate sounds

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Oxymoron

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Contradictory terms appear together

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Irony

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Opposite of what is expected

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Symbolism

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Using symbols to represent ideas

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Idiom

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Phrase with a meaning different from literal