Sure! Here are the definitions and examples matched to each type of figurative language:
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Personification - Giving human traits to non-human things.
Example: "The wind whispered through the trees." -
Hyperbole - An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
Example: "I’m so hungry I could eat a horse." -
Onomatopoeia - A word that imitates the natural sound of a thing.
Example: "The bacon sizzled in the pan." -
Idiom - A phrase or expression that has a figurative meaning different from its literal meaning.
Example: "It's raining cats and dogs." -
Alliteration - The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Example: "She sells sea shells by the sea shore."
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