Figurative Language-Owen
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simile
A comparison using "like" or "as"; he is as fast as a cheetah
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metaphor
A comparison without using like or as; she is a popsicle
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alliteration
repeated beginning sounds; Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
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hyperbole
exaggeration; I was so hungry that I ate the whole refrigerator
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onomatopoeia
sound words; boom, pow, creak
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idiom
saying one thing, but meaning something different; it's raining cats and dogs
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personification
giving human qualities to non-human things; the sun smiled down on us
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imagery
descriptive writing that uses our 5 senses; the night was silent and black as ever
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