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Alliteration
Words start with the same sound
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Metaphor
figure of speech that describes something by saying it’s something else
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Hyperbole
Exaggerating for a purpose
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Rule of three
three words that go together to convey a single concept
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Onomatopoeia
A word which sounds like what it means
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Personification
Giving an inanimate object human feelings or actions
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Superlative
Used to compare things and say which one is the biggest, strongest, fastest
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Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings
