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Explore the power of figurative language with this comprehensive guide covering personification, alliteration, assonance, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, and imagery. Learn how to enhance your writing and communication skills with these creative literary devices.
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Figurative Language Travalious Clark
Personification • An animal given human-like qualities or an object given life-like qualities
Alliteration • Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words
Assonance • Repeated vowel sound in a line or lines of poetry
Hyperbole • Exaggeration often used for emphasis
Onomatopeia • Words that imitate the sound they are naming
Metaphor • A direct comparison of two unlike things.
Simile • A comparison of two things using “like or “as”
Imagery • Most images are visual, but they can also appeal to the sense of sound, touch, taste, or smell