Figurative Language

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Figurative Language

• Non-literal speech or writing that achieves a
  special meaning or effect.

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HYPERBOLE

• An exaggeration
• Examples
• The math classes are a million, billion miles
  away.
• Im so hungry that I could eat a horse.
• I nearly died from laughing!

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IDIOM

• An expression that cannot be understood from the
  meaning of its separate words, but must be
  learned as a whole.
• Examples
• Put a sock in it!
• Break a leg!
• Its raining cats and dogs.

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METAPHOR

• An imaginative comparison between two unlike
  things in which one thing is described as though
  it were another thing.
• Examples
• The wind is ruffling the tawny pelt of Africa.
• Our English homework is a piece of cake!
• My college roommate was a pig.

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PERSONIFICATION

• A figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing or
  quality is talked about as if it were human or
  alive.
• Example The soft gray hands of sleep
• Toiled all night long
• To spin a beautiful garment
• Of dreams.
• -Edward Silvera

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SIMILE

• A comparison between two unlike things, using a
  word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
• Examples
• When the last bus leaves, moths stream toward
  light like litter in the wind.
• Life is like a box of chocolates you never
  know what you are going to get.
• His heart is as cold as ice.

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