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Figurative Language
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10
English
6th Grade
11/15/2013

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Term
Personification
Definition
When a writer gives human characteristics to nonhuman things
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Figurative Language
Definition
An exaggeration of language; it does not mean what it says
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Oxymoron
Definition
A contradictory statement
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Alliteration
Definition
The repetition of an initial sound in two or more words
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
Words that imitate the sound associated with the object or action they refer to
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Simile
Definition
A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
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Hyperbole
Definition
The obvious and intentional use of exaggeration
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Assonance
Definition
Similarity in sounds between internal vowels in neighboring words
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Consonance
Definition
The repetition of the same consonants
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Metaphor
Definition
A comparison of two things NOT using "like" or "as"
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