Figurative Language / 5th

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What is a hyperbole?

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An extreme exaggeration.

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What is a metaphor?

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Comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other.

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What is an idiom?

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A phrase that means something else than what it says.

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What is personification?

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Giving human traits to objects or ideas.

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What is a simile?

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Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is an oxymoron?

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A figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

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What is irony?

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A contrast between expectation and reality.

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Give an example of hyperbole.

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I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

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Give an example of a simile.

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Her smile was as bright as the sun.

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Give an example of personification.

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The wind whispered through the trees.