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Figurative language

Figurative language. By: Kimberly Stanley. personification . An animal given human-like qualities or an object given life-like qualities. alliteration.

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Figurative language

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  1. Figurative language By: Kimberly Stanley

  2. personification An animal given human-like qualities or an object given life-like qualities.

  3. alliteration Consonant sounds repeated at the beginning’s of word’s.

  4. assonance Repeated vowel sounds in a line or line of poetry.

  5. hyperbole Exaggeration often used for emphasis. Example: man, that’s like a million time’s harder.

  6. onomatopoeia Words that imitate the sound they are naming.

  7. metaphor A direct comparison of two unlike thing’s. Example: I just ate a horse and zebra.

  8. Simile A comparison of two thing’s using “like” or “as”. Example: my mind is like a ocean; my words are like a river.

  9. Imagery Most images are visual, but they can also appeal to the senses of sound, touch ,taste, or smell

  10. Idiom An expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression. It mean’s something other than what it actually say’s

  11. consonance The repeated consonant sound’s can be anywhere in the word.

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