Figurative Language
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- Q1a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or assimile30s
- Q2an exaggeration that cannot possibly be truehyperbole30s
- Q3words whose sounds suggest their meaningonomatopoeia30s
- Q4An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally (ex- "Get your head out of the clouds").idiom30s
- Q5A comparison of two different things/people without using like or asmetaphor30s
- Q6giving human-like qualities to nonhuman thingspersonification30s
- Q7the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of wordsalliteration30s
- Q8A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of artallusion30s
- Q9a humorous play on words; a play on words, often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meaningspun30s
- Q10an overused phrase that can be literal or figurative in meaning; example, it's raining cats and dogscliche30s
- Q11Exactly true, word for word; rather than figurative or metaphoricalliteral30s
- Q12symbolic; language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feelingfigurative30s