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 * Figurative Language **

Analogy - a comparison made between two things to show how they are alike. (extended simile or metaphor)

Alliteration – the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words. Example: Shelly sees scrapbooking as a sensational source of selfies.

Figure of speech – a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood as literally true.

Hyperbole – an extreme exaggeration (I’m so hungry that I could eat a horse.)

Idiom – a phrase that conveys a meaning different from the exact definition of the words used in it. (You’re driving me up a wall!)

Irony - a contrast between what is expected and what actually occurs. Irony Photos

Metaphor – a figure of speech that compares two things which are basically unlike. (example: Justin is a real bear in the morning.)

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Onomatopoeia – the use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning. (buzz, boom, tick tock)

Personification – giving human qualities to nonhuman objects or beings.

Simile – a comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

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