Figurative Language
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Figurative language
a tool that an author uses to help the reader visuaize what is happening in a story
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Simile
a comparison using like or as
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Metaphor
a comparison but does not use like or as
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Personification
giving human qualities or characteristices to nonliving things
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Hyperbole
an intentionally exaggerated figure of speech
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Alliteration
the repetition of the initial letter.
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Onomatopoeis
the imitation of sounds in word form