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simile compares two unlike things using "like" or "as" http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3584/3666253248_ce46ee1f7e.jpg metaphor a comparison without using like or as http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5139/5444107166_46aba9b139.jpg idiom An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally (ex- "Get your head out of the clouds"). http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7016/6707394131_fa417a42dc.jpg onomatopeia words that imitate sounds http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3351/3560891361_89fdf13ef1.jpg alliteration repetition of initial consonant sounds http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3460/5710202398_b4b54bc71c.jpg irony the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6002/5933338742_36facb3bc2.jpg oxymoron conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4015/4494707377_486e20625c.jpg personification giving human qualities to nonhuman things http://farm1.staticflickr.com/53/152520450_3378f86b21.jpg hyperbole purposeful exaggeration for effect http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5202/5316252719_9e657ec8c1.jpg euphemism An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant http://farm1.staticflickr.com/2/2082849_bff48a3c5f.jpg