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F.L. Terms
Term | Definition |
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Simile | Comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
Metaphor | Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as - saying one thing is something else |
Personification | Giving human characteristics to something that is not human |
Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration |
Pun | A "play" on words intended to be humorous |
Alliteration | Repetition in two or more nearby words of initial consonant sounds (SOUNDS NOT LETTERS) |
Onomatopoeia | The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named |
Allusion | A reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar |
Idiom | A phrase whose non-literal meaning must be applied |
Irony | An unexpected outcome |