Figurative Language Terms
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crystalgu3 on February 15, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | repeated consonant sounds |
| Onomatopoeia | words that sound like what they are |
| Imagery | creating pictures for the five senses - sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech stating two things are similar |
| Simile | comparison between two like things - using "like" or "as" |
| Hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
| Personification | making an inanimate object act like a person or animal |
| Idiom | a phrase that cannot be taken literally, but its meaning is understood |
| Irony | something that at first seems to contradict itself, a contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens |
| Cliche | something that represents a completely different thing or idea, a worn-out idea or overused expression |
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