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| Figurative Language | a way of saying something other than the literal meaning of the words. |
| Figurative Langauge | a figure of speech |
| simile | She's like the wind in the trees |
| simile | A comparison using like or as |
| metaphor | You are the light of my life |
| Metaphor | Comparing two things by using one kind of object or using in place of another to suggest the likeness between them. |
| Personification | Giving something human qualities |
| Personification | the tree watches him sleep |
| Hyperbole | a deliberate exagerration |
| Hyperbole | You could have knocked me over with a feather |
| Alliteration | the repetition of the initial consonant sound in two or more neighboring words or syllables |
| Alliteration | Tongue Twisters such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." |
| Assonance | A resemblance of sound in words or syllables |
| Assonance | holy and stony |
| Onomatopoeia | Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it. |
| Onomatopoeia | He clattered and clanged as he washed the dishes |
| Symbolism | A thing (could be an object, person, situation or action) which stands for something else more abstract |
| Symbolism | An American Flag flying at half mast |
| Imagery | A thing (could be an object, person, situation or action) which stands for something else more abstract |
| Paradox | A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements, but on closer inspection may be true. |
| Paradox | green is gold |
| Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead OR something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present. |
| Apostrophe | Western Wind, when wilt thou blow, |
