Figurative Language Techniques

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Simile

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A comparison using "like" or "as"

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Metaphor

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A direct comparison saying something is something else

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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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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Oxymoron

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Two contradictory terms together

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Irony

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Saying the opposite of what is meant

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Symbolism

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Using symbols to represent ideas