figurative language

What is a simile?

• Comparison without like or as

• Figure of speech connecting to contradictory terms

• Comparison using like or as

• Extreme exaggeration

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What is personification?

• Figure of speech putting together two contradictory terms

• Extreme exaggeration

• Giving human-like qualities to inanimate objects and animals

• Comparing two things without like or as

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What is an oxymoron?

• Extreme exaggeration

• Comparison using like or as

• Figure of speech putting together contradictory terms

• Giving human traits to animal or non-living things

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What is hyperbole?

• Repetition of the same sound

• Extreme exaggeration

• Giving human traits to animal or non-living things

• Comparing two things without like or as

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What is a metaphor?

• Giving human traits to animal or non-living things

• Comparison using like or as

• Extreme exaggeration

• Comparison without like or as

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They thought he was a wise fool.

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

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I've told you a million times to clean your room!

• Alliteration

• Personification

• metaphor

• Hyperbole

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“I tell her of my father’s great herd, and how they would graze each day, walking for miles, the sun in our bones, the grass whispering its shy music.”

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

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Rachel is a walking encyclopedia.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

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“Cars come and go like frantic ants.”

• personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

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