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Figures of Speech

Tools

Examples

A	B
metaphors	"The stream's a snake."
simile	"She dances like a princess."
hyperbole	"My date last night was the most beautiful girl in the world."
personification	"The fog crept in on little cat feet."
allusion	"My boyfriend dances like King Kong."
paradox	"A little learning is a dangerous thing."
oxymoron	"Jumbo shrimp"
parallelism	"When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer,/ When the proofs, the figures were ranged before me."
	ALLUSION
	ONOMATOPOEIA

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