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    This document defines and provides examples of various types of figurative language including alliteration, assonance, hyperbole, irony, idioms, juxtaposition, personification, and puns. Alliteration is the repetition of initial sounds in words. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyme. Hyperbole uses obvious exaggeration to express emotion while irony contrasts expectations with reality or what is said with what is meant.

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    This document defines and provides examples of various types of figurative language including alliteration, assonance, hyperbole, irony, idioms, juxtaposition, personification, and puns. Alliteration is the repetition of initial sounds in words. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyme. Hyperbole uses obvious exaggeration to express emotion while irony contrasts expectations with reality or what is said with what is meant.

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    Alliteration: the repetition of the same sounds or of the

    same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words.


    Allusion: reference to a statement, a
    person, or an event from literature,
    history, religion, mythology, politics,
    or sports.
    Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds to create an
    internal rhyme.
    Hyperbole: an obvious exaggeration or
    overstatement to express emotion.
    Irony: A contrast between what is expected and what
    really happens or between what is said and what is
    meant.
    Idiom: an expression whose meaning
    is not predictable from the usual
    meanings of its constituent elements.
    Juxtaposition: two things placed together to create a
    contrasting effect.
    Personification: giving human like
    qualities to animals or inanimate
    objects.
    Pun: wordplay; using words that have multiple
    FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

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