Figurative Language Essentials

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Simile

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Comparison using 'like' or 'as'

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Personification

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Giving human traits to non-human things

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration for effect

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that imitate sounds

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Oxymoron

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Contradictory terms appear together.

Example: Bittersweet, deafening silence

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Symbolism

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Using symbols to represent ideas

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Understatement

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Downplaying significant events

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Proverb

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A short saying that gives advice or expresses a truth

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Idioms

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A saying that has a different meaning than what it literally says.