Figurative Language

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Figurative Language
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• Simile involves a direct comparison between two
  unlike things, usually with the words like or as
• Metaphor involves an implied comparison between
  two relatively unlike things. Often uses the
  words was, is, or were as signals
• Analogy a word relationship between two pairs
  of words shows similarities

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• Hyperbole great exaggeration, usually with
  humor
• Onomatopoeia naming a thing or action by
  imitating the sound associated with it
• Personification giving something human
  qualities
• Idiom an expression that has a meaning apart
  from the meanings of its individual words
  peculiar expression