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#gm Type- Figurative Language Terms

Alliteration Anastrophe Assonance Consonance Euphemism Hyperbole IdiomLogos-glyph Metaphor Onomatopoeia Personification Portmanteau Pun Similes Tmesis
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Repetition of the same initial consonant sound in successive words.
Alliteration
Those purple pigs are preposterous.
Deliberate changing of normal word order for emphasis.
Anastrophe
Ugly she was not.
Repetition of the same vowel sound in neighboring words.
Assonance
Hear, not fear, the wisdom of wizards.
Repetition of the same consonant sound in neighboring words.
Consonance
The big dog dug a hole.
An agreeable or inoffensive term used to replace a rude or offensive one.
Euphemism
didn't make it = has died
Deliberate exaggeration for emphasis or comedy.
Hyperbole
They've got truckloads of money.
A commonly used expression whose meaning does not relate to the literal meaning of its words.
Idiom
This is the last straw.
A word that looks like what it means.
Logos-glyph
She had eyes like pools.
A figure of speech that compares two unrelated things by stating that one thing is another.
Metaphor
This bedroom is a prison.
The use of a word which sounds like what it represents.
Onomatopoeia
I can hear it sizzling?
When non-human objects are given human traits.
Personification
Summer's healing rays
A word made by blending the meanings and parts of the spellings of two or more other words
Portmanteau
spork or fanzine
A witticism that plays on the different meanings of a word or two words that sound alike but have different meanings.
Pun
I'm an honest cheetah.
A figure of speech that likens one thing to another (usually by using the word like or as).
Similes
She sings like an angel.
Involves inserting a word into another word (or dividing a word up into chunks). Used for emphasis.
Tmesis
Un-be-lievable!
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