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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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  • Hyperbole
    An exaggeration or overstatement used for effect. such statements are not literally true, but people make them sound impressive or to emphasize something."
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  • Hyperbole
    An exaggeration or overstatement used for effect. such statements are not literally true, but people make them sound impressive or to emphasize something."
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  • An exaggeration or overstatement used for effect. such statements are not literally true, but people make them sound impressive or to emphasize something."
    Hyperbole
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  • "His smile was so wide he's have to break it into sections to fit it through the doorway."
    Hyperbole
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  • "It was cold and hard, but I was so tired I could have slept in a wind tunnel."
    Hyperbole
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  • Descriptive language used to appeal to the five senses and to create vivid mental pictures.
    imagery
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  • imagery
    Descriptive language used to appeal to the five senses and to create vivid mental pictures.
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  • I rember 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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  • see, smell, taste, feel, hear
    imagery
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  • money matters
    alliteration
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