Interpret Figurative Language

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What is a language that uses words in ways that shift from their literal interpretation to achieve a more complex or powerful effect

What makes a comparison between two unrelated things stating that one thing is like another thing.

What is an intentional exaggeration of the truth, used to emphasize the importance of something or to create a comic effect

What takes non-human things and describes them as having human attributes

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unrelated things by stating that one thing is another thing

an expression that means something totally different than the the literal interpretation of its words would suggest

means exactly what it says

placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

What is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that ends up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated