4th Grade Figurative language

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object.

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What is personification?

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A figure intended to represent an abstract quality.

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What is an idiom?

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A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.

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What is onomatopoeia?

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Creating a word that phonetically resembles the sound like meow.

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What is a simile?

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A comparison using like or as.

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What does 'raining cats and dogs' mean?

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It means it's raining very heavily.

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What does 'having cold feet' mean?

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It means to feel nervous or afraid about something.

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What is hyperbole?

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An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.

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What is alliteration?

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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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What is a pun?

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A form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term.