FLASHCARDS:🕵🏻‍♂️ Literary Devices and Figurative Language

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Simile

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A comparison of two unlike subjects using the words "like" or "as."

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What is a metaphor?

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A comparison of two unlike subjects when one is the other.

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Personification

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Giving human characteristics to an animal, idea, or nonliving object.

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Imagery

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Language that creates mental pictures by using sensory language. 

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Onomatopoeia

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The use of words to imitate sound.

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Idiom

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A group of words whose meaning is different from the ordinary or literal meaning.

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Hyperbole

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A big exaggeration in order to make a point.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in the same phrase.

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What is the following an example of... "Make me your radio, turn me up when you feel low..."

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personification

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What is the following an example of... "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog..." Options: onomatopoeia, personification, metaphor, simile

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metaphor