RL 2.4

Figurative language is words and/or phrases that mean exactly what they sound like they mean. Figurative language can be taken literally.

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A simile is a comparison using "like" or "as." If I say something is "as cold as ice," but it is not literally ice, I am using a simile.

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Metaphor is giving humanlike qualities to nonhuman things. Talking animals are an example of metaphor.

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An allusion is a reference to a well-known character, place, or thing from history or literature. Authors sometimes allude to characters from the Bible or Greek mythology, for example.

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When authors use idioms like "night fell," they mean the sky fell to the ground. There was likely a disaster.

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Tone is an author's attitude towards the story, characters, and audience.

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Denotation of a word is its literal meaning. You can find the denotative meaning of a word in the dictionary.

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The connotation of a word is the feelings and emotions the word creates. Words can evoke positive, negative, or neutral reactions in readers.

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Two words with same denotative (literal) meaning can have different connotative (positive, negative, or neutral) meanings. For example, the words "youthful" and "immature" have the same denotative meaning but different connotations.

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