figurative language Flashcards
1
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compares two or more unlike things typically uses the words is, are, was, were.
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metaphor
2
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metaphor that compares two things at length in many ways.
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Extended metaphor
3
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giving human characteristics/qualities to an intimate object
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Personification
4
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greatly exaggerating something for emphasis
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Hyperbole
5
Q
taps into the fear of losing one safety or security
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Appeal to fear
6
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Draws on sympathy or compassion for other
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Appealed to pity
7
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relies on one sense of ethics or morality
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Appeal to guilt
