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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE . ALLUSION. "I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor -el, to save the Planet Earth." (Senator Barack Obama). ASSONANCE.

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

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  1. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

  2. ALLUSION • "I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the Planet Earth."(Senator Barack Obama)

  3. ASSONANCE And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; Edgar Allen Poe’s “THE RAVEN”

  4. HYPERBOLE • Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,Then another thousand, then a second hundred,Then still another thousand, then a hundred (Catullus)

  5. METAPHOR • "Between the lower east side tenementsthe sky is a snotty handkerchief.“ (Marge Piercy, "The Butt of Winter")

  6. METONYMY • "The pen is mightier than the sword," meaning literary power is superior to military force. • "The House was called to order," meaning the members in the House. • "We have always remained loyal to the crown." • "He is a man of the cloth"

  7. PERSONIFICATION • The sun kissed the flowers. The wind was whistling. The grass was dancing. Opportunity began to knock on my door.

  8. SIMILE • "Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."(Carl Sandburg) "My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain."(W.H. Auden) "He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."(Raymond Chandler)

  9. SYMBOL • The ELEPHANT and the DONKEY?????

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