Figurative Language
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- Alliteration
- the repetition of one or more initial sounds, usually consonants and vowels at the beginning of each word in a series
- Allusion
- A reference to another work in literature or to someone or something that is known from history
- Assonance
- repetition of vowel sounds in words close to each other
- Consonance
- Repetition of final consonant sounds in words close to each other
- Simile
- a direct comparison of two unlike objects, using "like", "as", "than"
- Metaphor
- a direct comparison of two unlike objects by identification or subsitution; a comparison that is suggested or implied
- Personification
- to give human or personal qualities to inanimate things or ideas. Using a noun as a person or persons.(eg. the cloud held the mountain on its shoulders)
- Onomatopoeia
- The use of words which sound like what they mean
- Oxymoron
- a combination of contradictory words
- symbolism
- the use of one object to suggest another hidden object or idea
- imagery
- creating a visual picture with words
- anthropomorphism
- assigning human qualities, particularly emotions or thoughts, to non-human creatures (eg. the sea raged; the penguin asking if this fish makes it look fat)