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Personification

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PERSONIFICATION

  • When you give human characteristics to non human things
  • The book was begging me to read it
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HYPERBOLE

  • To give an exaggeration
  • It's raining cats and dogs!
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IDIOM

  • A fixed expression
  • It was a chaotic event to do the math test!
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SIMILE

  • A phrase using "like or as"
  • She was as cute as a kitten
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METAPHOR

  • A phrase using a strait comparision
  • She is a living computer!
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OXYMORON

  • A figure of speech in which contradictory terms are used
  • Examples: deafening silence
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ALLITERATION

  • When you repeat a consonant sound in words
  • Cute, cuddly, cunning kitty
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