Figurative Language--Sp21

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Extreme exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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Repeating a word or phrase

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Repetition

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Similar grammatical structure

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Parallelism

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Repeating first letter consonant sounds

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Alliteration

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Words that imitate sounds

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Onomatopoeia

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Comparing two unlike things without 'like' or 'as'

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Metaphor

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Describing something vividly to appeal to the senses.

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Imagery

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Dictionary definition of a word

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Denotation

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Giving human traits to non-human things

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Personification

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Repeating vowel sounds in a word

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Assonance