Figurative Language Terms & Examples

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A comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as”

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Simile

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giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects

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Personification

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A phrase that has two opposite words

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Oxymoron

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an extreme exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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The opposite of what is meant (situational, verbal, dramatic)

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Irony

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A comparison of two unlike things without using the words “like” or “as”

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Metaphor

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A phrase that means something different than its literal meaning

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Idiom

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Repetition of the same initial consonant letter or sounds

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Alliteration

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a word that imitates the sound that it represents

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Onomatopoeia

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a “humorous” substitution of words that sound alike but are different in meaning

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Pun