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Figurative language

Figurative language. By: D evin M ariannino. Simile . Uses like or as to compare 2 unlike things. Ex. He was like a hawk when he was hunting. Hyperbole. Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect I love you past the sky and back. A lliteration.

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Figurative language

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  1. Figurative language By: Devin Mariannino

  2. Simile • Uses like or as to compare 2 unlike things. • Ex. He was like a hawk when he was hunting

  3. Hyperbole • Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect • I love you past the sky and back.

  4. Alliteration • The repetition of the first consonant sound in words • How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

  5. Metaphore • Two things being compared without like or as • Tatums head is a rock

  6. Personifaction • Giving human traits to nonhuman things • The trees are dancing in the rain

  7. Onomatopoeia • Words that represent the actual sounds of something • The rabit ate a carote that went BOOM

  8. Idioms • Expressions that don’t mean whet they say • Its raining cars and trucks

  9. Understatment • Expression with less strength than expected • This will hurta HOLE lot

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