Figurative Language Flashcards
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Hyperbole
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Deliberate exaggeration or overstatement
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Allusion
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Reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
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Imagery
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Descriptive or figurative language used in literatureto create word pictures for the reader.
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Metaphor
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Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken as though it were some thing else.
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Personification
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Type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is giving human characteristics.
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Symbol
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Anything that stands for or represents something else.
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Simile
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Figure of speech in which like or as is used to make comparison between two basically unlike ideas.
