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1. Figurative language: a technique poets (and others) use to create strong imagery.
Figurative language conveys meaning beyond the literal meaning of the words.
2. Simile: a type of figurative language in which two seemingly unlike things are compared
using like or as.
o Payday loans are like a blight on one’s financial soul.
3. Metaphor: a type of figurative language that directly compares two unlike objects.
o During the day it was a thunderous surge of cars, a great insect rustling.
4. Personification: a type of figurative language in which animals, inanimate objects, or
ideas are given human qualities.
o The wind howled its disapproval as we opened the front door.
5. Synecdoche: a part of something substituted for the whole.
o Romeo, give me thy heart and we shall enjoy our love.