Figurative Language

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Personification

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Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things

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Idiom

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A figure of speech; what you mean is not what you say

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Simile

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A comparison using like or as

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Hyperbole

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Extreme exaggeration

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonants at the beginning of words

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Metaphor

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A comparison without using like or as

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that sound like what they are describing