Figurative Language Flashcards
0
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Reuse the beginning sounds not letters
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Alliteration
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Extreme exaggeration used to make a point
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Hyperbole
2
Q
Giving human qualities to things that are not human
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Personification
3
Q
Words that make their own sounds
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Onomatopoeia
4
Q
A comparison using the words “like” or “as”
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Simile
5
Q
A comparison WITHOUT using the words “like” or “as”
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Metaphor
6
Q
Old sayings that have been way over used but that people recognize their meanings
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Idiom
