Figurative Language Flashcards by mackenzie sobstishin | Brainscape

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Simile

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Comparing something using like or as

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Metaphor

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Comparing something without using like or as

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that means a sound

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Hyperbole

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An exaggeration

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Personification

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Using human actions to describe a non-human thing

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Definition: Alliteration

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A tongue twister

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Definition: Assonance

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Repeation of a vowel that is the second of the word

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Definition: Consonance

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The repetition of a sound in a series of word

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Definition: Rhyme

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A repitition of similar sounding words

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Definition: Allusion

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An inderect reference to a person

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Definition: Idiom

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An expression that is not literal

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Definition: Imaginary

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Not real

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Definition: Verbal Irony

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Something contradictory to what they mean

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Definition: Dramatic Irony

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When the audience knows more than the character

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Definition: Situational Irony

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When the opposite of what is expected happens

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Definition: Foreshadowing

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When a writer gives a hint of what is going to happen

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Illusion

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Referring to another book/movie

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Elipses

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