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Grade 4 ELA: Poetry — Figurative Language

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1.
language that means more than the literal words / creative comparisons and exaggerations
2.
a comparison using like or as
3.
a comparison that says one thing is another
4.
giving human qualities to nonhuman things
5.
extreme exaggeration for effect
6.
repetition of beginning sounds in nearby words
7.
simile (uses like)
8.
metaphor
9.
Answers vary with like/as
10.
Answers vary (is/are)
11.
personification
12.
hyperbole / metaphor (mountain)

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