Figurative Language Review

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Simile

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A comparison using the words "like" or "as."

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Metaphor

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A comparison NOT using the words "like" or "as."

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Personification

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Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.

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Hyperbole

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An extreme exaggeration.

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that imitates a sound.

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Idiom

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An expression that means something different than what the words state.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of beginning sounds.

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Allusion

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Making reference to a character or event from another piece of literature.

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"When pigs fly" is an example of which figurative language?

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idiom

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"Boom!" is an example of what type of figurative language?

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onomatopoeia