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• onomatopoeia
• simile
• alliteration
• hyperbole

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Why do people use figurative language?

• To make their writing interesting and visual, or to emphasis an idea and make a point.
• To be grammatically correct.
• To structure their writing into paragraphs.
• Because Beyonce uses it in her songs. 

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a “humorous” substitution of words that sound alike but are different in meaning

• Idiom
• Pun
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

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Time crawled as Tim sat in the hot detention room painfully watching the clock tic. What is being personified?

• The clock

• Time

• The room

• Tim

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A figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true but helps explain an idea or make a comparison and states an object is another:

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Imagery

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Metaphor

• Uses like or as.

• A direct comparison between two unlike things. It does not use the words like or as.

• Figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated.

• A book that lists words in alphabetical order and gives their meanings, pronunciations, and etc.

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He is one tough cookie.

• He eats a lot of cookies

• He likes cookies

• He works hard

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A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like", "as", or "than"

• Personification

• Meter

• Metaphor

• Simile

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Language in which the words are meant to be interpreted imaginatively is...

• figurative

• literal

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"If you could picture a little dark puppy that's been kicked...that would be Johnny."

What kind of figurative language is this?

• Simile

• Metaphor

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