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- Alliteration
- The repetion of beginning consonant sounds.
- Metaphor
- A comparison of two unlike things without using the words LIKE or AS.
- Figurative Language
- Language which has a symbolic meaning and uses figures of speech.
- Personification
- A figure of speech in which non human things are given human characteristics.
- Prosaic
- Ordinary, factual. Characteristics of prose writing.
- Simile
- A comparison of two unlike things using the words LIKE or AS.
- Onomatopoeia
- A literary device. The use of a word whose sound makes you think of its meaning.
- Literal
- According to the real or true meaning of the words.
- Oxymoron
- A technique where two words with opposite meaning are put together for effect.
- Hyerbole
- Extreme exaggeration that a writer uses for emphasis.