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Is a figure of speech that compares two usually dissimilar things. The comparison uses like, as or as if.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Drama

Is the attribution of human characteristics to non-living objects.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

Is an expression peculiar to a language that cannot be taken literally.

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

Is an exaggeration that is created to emphasize a point or bring out a sense of humor.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole

For example, “I've got wheels” which means “I have a car.”

• Synecdoche

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Is a language that names something or an action by imitating the sound associated with it.

• Onomatopoeia

• Synecdoche

• Alliteration

The repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line.

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia