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Question | Answer |
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Figurative Language | Language enriched by words, images, and figures of speech. |
Onomatopoeia | Words whose sound imitates their suggested meaning. |
Personification | A figure of speech on which human qualities are attributed to animals, objects, or ideas. |
Idiom | A combination of words not strictly in accordance with grammatical rules, often possessing a meaning other than its grammatical or logical one. |
Hyperbole | A figure of speech which uses deliberate exaggeration. |
Assonance | The close repetition of middle vowel sounds. |
Consonance | the repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after differing vowel sounds |
Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. |
Metaphor | A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things. |
Simile | A figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two unlike things using the word like or as |
Example of simile | She is as sly as a fox. |
Example of consonance | stoke/luck |
Example of onomatopoeia | drip |