| Term | Definition |
|---|
| allegory | a story with underlining symbols that really represent something else. |
| alliteration | the use of a repeated constant sound, usually at the beginning of a series of words |
| allusion | a reference to something or someone |
| analogy | comparing something to something else |
| anthropomorphism | assigning human attributes such as emotions or physical characteristics to nonhuman things |
| hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration |
| paradox | it usually contains some basic truth that resolves the apparent contradiction |
| personification | assigning human attributes to something nonhuman |
| satire | ridicule of a subject |
| idiom | a figure of speech that is to be taken figuratively not literally |
| metaphor | comparison like a simile, does not use like or as |
| onomatopoeia | a word intended to simulate the actual sound of the thing or action it describes |
| oxymoron | a phrase in which the words are contradictory |
| simile | comparison that uses like or as |
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