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Personification

Giving human qualities to non human things.

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Metaphor

A comparison of two unrelated things by directly saying that one thing is the other without using like or as

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Simile

A comparison between 2 unrelated things using like or as

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Hyperbole

Extreme exaggeration of something

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Idiom

A common phrase or expression with a figurative meaning

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Alliteration

The repititon of initial consonant sounds

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Onomatopoeia

Words that phonetically imitate the sound that they describe

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Oxymoron

Combing condraictory terms for effect

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Figurative language

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Allusion

Reference to a person, place, or event from history, literature or sports