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Learn about figurative language, personification, alliteration, simile, assonance, metaphor, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia to enhance your writing skills and create vivid imagery in your poetry. Explore the beauty of language through these expressive techniques.
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Figurative Language Shantranique Batton
Personification An animal given human like qualities or an object given life like qualities.
Alliteration Consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of words.
Simile A sentence using like or as. • I like to go to the park as if I was going to a party. • OR • I think I would like vanilla better. • OR • I love you as a sister.
Assonance Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry. • Apple • Eagle • Orange • Unicorn
Metaphor A direct comparison of two unlike things.
Hyperbole Exaggeration often used for emphasis.
Onomatopoeia Words that imitate the sound they are naming.