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Figurative Language

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    Figurative Language
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  • Repeated consonant or vowel sounds at the beginning of words. Alliteration is used to create mood or emphasize certain words
    Alliteration
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  • Alliteration
    Repeated consonant or vowel sounds at the beginning of words. Alliteration is used to create mood or emphasize certain words
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  • "Fifty years ago I learned to read at a round table in the center of a large, Sweet-Smelling, Steam-Softened kitchen."
    Alliteration
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  • "His Super-Slow dip- Stride Slump Shuffle"
    Alliteration
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  • An expression that, taken literally, means something other than it does figuratively.
    Idiom
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  • idiom
    An expression that, taken literally, means something other than it does figuratively.
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  • get a taste of your own medicine
    idiom
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  • To give someone the cold shoulder
    idiom
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  • They went on a wild goose chase. 
    idiom
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  • good things come to those who wait
    idiom
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  • Descriptive language used to appeal to the five senses and to create vivid mental pictures.
    imagery
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  • What is imagery?
    Descriptive language used to appeal to the five senses and to create vivid mental pictures.
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  • I remember the summers with lightening bugs and honeysuckles smell; the cold winters when the field would all be brown and would crackle under my feet.
    Imagery
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  • the Autumn leaves are a blanket on the ground
    imagery
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  • His words felt like a dagger in my heart.
    imagery
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  • Figurative language that uses your five senses: see, smell, taste, feel, hear.
    imagery
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