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What is a direct comparison of 2 things using the words "like" or "as" ?
What is a simile.
What is a direct comparison of 2 things, not using the words "like" or "as" ?
What is a metaphor.
What kind of figurative language gives human qualities or abilities to a non human object?
What is personification.
What kind of figurative language refers to something outside the poem (another work, historic event, celebrity, etc)?
What is an allusion.
What is onomatopoeia.
What kind of figurative language is the repetition of an initial consonant sound?
What is alliteration.
What is a well known phrase that does not express what is actually meant?
What is an idiom.
What kind of figurative language uses visually descriptive language?
What is imagery.
What kind of figurative language is used when placing 2 words of opposite meaning right next to each other?
What is oxymoron.
What kind of figurative language is shown in the phrase "My backpack weighs a ton"?
What is hyperbole.
What kind of figurative language is used in the phrase "There was a deafening silence in the room" ?
What is oxymoron.
What kind of figurative language is used in the phrase "My trip home was almost as long as Odysseus' journey!" ?
What is allusion.
What 2 kinds of figurative language are used in the the phrase "The trees swayed shyly in the summer breeze" ?
What is alliteration and personification.
What is a metaphor.
What kind of figurative language is used in the phrase "her smile is as bright as the sun" ?
What is simile.