Figurative Language Terms

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Language that means exactly what is said.

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Literal

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Not a category of figurative language:

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Visual

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Giving human traits to animals, objects, or ideas.

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Personification

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Contrast between a situation's result and usual expectations.

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Situational Irony

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A figure of speech implying a comparison between two unlikely things.

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Metaphor

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Exaggerated statement to emphasize an idea.

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Hyperbole

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Comparison of two unlike things using connecting words.

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Simile

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Audience knows more than characters.

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Dramatic Irony

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Incongruous or contradictory terms side by side.

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Oxymoron

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A play on words; can involve different meanings of the same word or similar sounds of different words.

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Pun