Figurative Language Review

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What is PERSONIFICATION?

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To give human-like qualities to non-human objects.

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What is HYPERBOLE?

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Using exaggeration to prove a point.

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What is a PUN?

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A play on words.

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What is ONOMATOPOEIA?

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A word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

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What is a METAPHOR?

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Comparing 2 objects using a form of 'IS'.

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What is SIMILE?

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Comparing 2 objects using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is an IDIOM?

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A phrase that has a figurative meaning different from its literal meaning.

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What is ALLITERATION?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words.

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What is ASSONANCE?

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The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.

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What is a HYPERBOLE example?

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I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.