Figurative Language and Sound Devices

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a comparison between two unlike objects not using like or as

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metaphor

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A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.

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Simile

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a large exaggeration

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hyperbole

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Giving an inhuman thing human qualities

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Personification

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Expressions that do not mean what they literally say.

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Idiom

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a figure of speech where two partnered words seem to have completely opposite meanings

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oxymoron

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a word that imitates the natural sounds of a thing; it creates sound effect that mimics the thing described

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onomatopoeia

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beginning of words start with the same consonant

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alliteration

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the repetition of sounds at the ends of words in poetry

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rhyme

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A reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work of art in literature

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allusion