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Figurative Language

Language not meant literally but use for emotional effect or

emphasis

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Hyperbole

• It was a zillion degrees below zero.

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Simile• Example: “…the rug that

smells like low tide.

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Metaphor

• A direct comparison between two unlike things

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Personification

• giving an animal or object human-like characteristics.

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Metaphor

• Example: "You are a cloud.”

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Hyperbole

• Extreme exaggeration not to be taken literally, often used for humorous effect

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Simile• Comparing two unlike things

using like or as

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Personification

• The book jumped out of my hands.

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Metaphor

• a comparison between two or more things that doesn't use the words like or as.

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Oxymoron

• Old news

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Onomatopoeia

• “Bang. Squirrel stew tonight!”

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Hyperbole• Example: “I keep tripping over everything. Cracks in the sidewalk, ants on the sidewalk, shadows, anything.”

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Personification

• Example: “…until the last spark dies”

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Oxymoron

• When contradictory words are used together

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Irony

• an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.

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Simile• a comparison between two

or more things using the words like or as.

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Alliteration

• Repetition of initial consonant sounds.

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Allusion

• It was as if Jack Frost had moved in with us.

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Malapropism• misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.

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Irony

We expect Kenny to be happy when Byron gets his gloves back, but he is sad for Larry Dunn.

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Onomatopoeia

• When a word sounds like the sound it is naming.

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Malapropism

• I’ll be the laughing sock of the whole school!


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