Figurative Language Crossword Puzzle

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Figurative Language Crossword Puzzle

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  • simile : a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
  • metaphor : a comparison saying one thing is something else
  • personification : the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
  • idiom : a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
  • alliteration : the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
  • oxymoron : a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
  • hyperbole : exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
  • allusion : an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
  • onomatopoeia : the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named