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| 14904522197 | Figurative Language | "Figurative Language" is the opposite of "Literal Language." Literal language is writing that makes complete sense when you take it at face value. "Figurative Language" is the opposite: writing that is not meant to be taken literally. | 0 | |
| 14904522198 | Analogy | An analogy is a comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables. When a writer uses an analogy, he or she argues that the relationship between the first pair of variables is the same as the relationship between the second pair of variables. "America is to the world as the hippo is to the jungle." Similes and metaphors are sometimes also analogies. | 1 | |
| 14904522199 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration. "My mother will kill me if I am late." | 2 | |
| 14904522200 | Idiom | A common, often used an expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. "I got chewed out by my coach." | 3 | |
| 14904522201 | Metaphor | Making an IMPLIED comparison, not using "like," as," or other such words. "My feet are popsicles." An extended metaphor is when the metaphor is continued later in the written work. If I continued to call my feet "my popsicles" in later paragraphs, that would be an extended metaphor. A particularly elaborate extended metaphor is called using conceit. | 4 | |
| 14904522202 | Metonymy | Replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept. "Relations between London and Washington have been strained," does not literally mean relations between the two cities, but between the leaders of the United States and England. Metonymy is often used with body parts: "I could not understand his tongue," means his language or his speech. | 5 | |
| 14904522203 | Synecdoche | A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, or vice versa. "The cattle rancher owned 500 head." "Check out my new wheels." | 6 | |
| 14904522204 | Simile | Using words such as "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two very different things. "My feet are so cold they feel like popsicles." | 7 | |
| 14904522205 | Synesthesia | a description involving a "crossing of the senses." Examples: "A purplish scent filled the room." "I was deafened by his brightly-colored clothing." | 8 | |
| 14904522206 | Personification | Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human. "The tired old truck groaned as it inched up the hill." | 9 |
