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Figurative Language
Figurative Language
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English
9th Grade
05/22/2012

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Alliteration
Definition
The repetition of the same constant sound at the beginning of two or more words.
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Imagery
Definition
Uses expressive or evocative images to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
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Assonance
Definition
The repetition or a pattern of similar vowel sounds, but with different end constants in a line or passage of verse or prose.
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Onomatopeia
Definition
A word that imitates a sound -- It is written by the way it sounds.
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Oxymoron
Definition
Combines opposite terms.
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Personification
Definition
When something that is not human exhibits human characteristics.
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Pun
Definition
A play on words.
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Simile
Definition
A comparison using "like" or "as" usually comparing dissimilar objects.
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Symbolism 
Definition
The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships.
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Allusion
Definition
A reference in aliterary work to a person, place, or history of another work of literature.
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Idiom
Definition
Word or phrase used figurativly to express a particular meaning understood by a common group of people.
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Euphemism
Definition
A substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered to be offensive.
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Hyperbole
Definition
A great exaggeration used to make a point.
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Metaphor
Definition
States that one thing is something else, it's a comparison but it does not use "like" or "as"
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Understatement
Definition
An author deliberatley makes something seem less important than it really is.
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