Figurative Language - all

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When a word sounds like its meaning.

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onomatopoeia

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When a phrase conveys a figurative meaning that is difficult or impossible to understand based only on its literal interpretation.

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Idiom

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When a writer compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

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Simile

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When a writer references a well-known person, place, thing, event, or famous work.

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Allusion

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When a writer gives an animal or an object qualities or abilities that only a human can have?

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Personification

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A figure of speech containing words that seem to contradict each other.

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Oxymoron

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Comparing two unlike things by saying that one thing is another thing.

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Metaphor

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When two or more words close together in a story or poem start with the same consonant sound.

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Alliteration

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Using extreme exaggeration to make a point or show emphasis

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Hyperbole

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...the sound of the rain falling in tons and avalanches, everywhere and forever.

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Hyperbole