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What is Alliteration?

• a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

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

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

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

What is Hyperbole?

• the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

• a euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is

• a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly

What is a Simile?

• a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

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

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

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

What is Meiosis?

• the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

• a euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is

• a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly

What is Onomatopoeia?

• the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

• a euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is

• a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly

What is a Metaphor?

• a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

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

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

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

What is an Idiom?

• the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

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

• a euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is

• a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly

What is Personification?

• a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

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

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

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

What is an Allusion?

• the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

• a euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is

• a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly

Which figurative language device is used in this sentence: "The car danced around the icy road as it lost control."

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Hyperbole