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Figurative Language

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    Idioms, similes, personification, irony, hyperbole and more.
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  • Her smile was as sweet as sunshine on a rainy day.
    simile
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  • The raindrops danced along the window pane.
    personification
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  • The woman gave a huge donation because she had a heart of gold.
    metaphor
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  • The apartment was so dirty that you would need a hazmat team to enter it.
    hyperbole
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  • The wooden table was as solid as a rock.
    simile
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  • The car zoomed down the road.
    onomatopoeia
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  • Betty Botter bought some butter.
    alliteration
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  • Betty bought badges for Bryce
    alliteration
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  • The fire crackled in the night air.
    onomatopoeia
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  • Compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
    metaphor
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  • Big exaggeration, usually with humor
    hyperbole
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  • Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it
    onomatopoeia
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  • Giving non human object a human qualities
    personification
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  • The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables
    alliteration
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  • They felt very alone together
    oxymoron
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  • This type of figurative language is a statement that seems to contradict itself.
    paradox
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