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Verbal Irony occurs:

• When the speaker says the opposite of what he/she means
• Most often in pieces of fiction 
• If the speaker doesn't realize he/she said something offensive
• When everyone knows what is being talked about except one person

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Comparison of unlike things that uses "like" "as" or "than" (Ex. This room is like an oven.)

• idiom
• metaphor
• personification
• simile

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What type of figurative language is shown?
The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm.

• personification
• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile

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What is "the devastation that will never end"?

• memories
• imagination
• war
• future

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"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil, prophet still, if bird or devil!" is an example of . . .

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole

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giving human traits to non-living things

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• anaphora

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Comparing one thing to another without using "like" or "as".

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• blank verse

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“It's a piece of cake.”

• hyperbole

• idiom

• allusion

• simile

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“Conscience is a man’s compass.” - Vincent Van Gogh

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• idiom

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a comparison between two unlike things

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

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