Figurative Language Flashcards

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Simile

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It is a comparing using like or as
Ex: They are as quiet as a mouse

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Metaphor

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It is an implied comparison
Ex: Students are night owls

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Alliteration

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Repeating consonants in 2 or more neighbouring words
Ex: Larry Let Loose, kendra’s kitten kept kicking

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Hyperbole

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An outrageous exaggeration
Ex: She is so smart her brain is the size of the sun, your locker is so messy it looks like a dumpster

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Personification

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Representing an object with human qualities
Ex: My lunch is calling me

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Imagery

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Visually descriptive language
Ex: With a spider’s web hanging across the door the hinges are rust and creak in the wind

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Symbolism

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When something represents something else
Ex: oh my luve is like a rose that’s newly sprung in june

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Rhyme

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the repetition of words that sound the same, typically at the end of the line
Ex: twinkle twinkle little star..

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Rhythm

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The way in which a poem is written so that it flows
Ex: because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me..

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Stanza

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Two or more lines of a poem that form a division
Ex: today is your birthday…

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Onomatopoeia

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The use of a sound
Ex: the bee buzzed in ear

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Idiom

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phrases that have a meaning that is very different from its individual parts
Ex: Break a leg

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Oxymoron

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A combination of contradictory words
Ex: jumbo shrimp, calm storm

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