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When a writer uses literal language, he or she is simply stating facts as they are.

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Literal

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When a writer uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation

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Figurative

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When you compare 2 things that are not alike with the use of like or as.

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Simile

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comparing things that are not alike

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Metaphor

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A comparison between two unlike things that continue throughout a series of sentences or paragraphs

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Extended Metaphor

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Repetition or initial constant sounds of words.

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Alliteration

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Figure of speech in which nonhuman things are given human characteristics.

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Personification

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Simple repeating of a word in order to secure emphasis

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Repetion

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A reference in a literary work to a person, place or thing in history or in another work of literature.

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Illusion

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A figure of speech. Something people say that means something else.

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Idiom