Types of Figurative Language 2 Flashcards
1
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What is a metaphor?
A
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things but doesn’t use like or as.
2
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What is a simile?
A
Figurative language that compares two unlike things and use like or as.
3
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What is personification?
A
It is a figure of speech that give human characteristics to a thing, animal, or idea.
4
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What is onomatopoeia?
A
Figurative language where a sound imitates the word it represents.
5
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What is hyperbole?
A
Figurative language that uses extreme exaggeration.
6
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What is alliteration?
A
Figurative language where several words have the same letter at the beginning of the word.
7
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What is an idiom?
A
An expression where the individual words have a different meaning than the words grouped together.
