Literary features practice

Literary features
metaphor, simile, euphemism, personification, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, idiom, alliteration

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Literary features
metaphor, simile, euphemism, personification, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, idiom, alliteration

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Metaphor
imaginary (beeldspraak)
It does not literally mean what it states

The eye of heaven = the sun
Right before confronting her teacher she got cold feet.
She became afraid and did not want to do it anymore.

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Idioms
idioms are phrases which people use in everyday language which do not make sense literally, but we understand their meaning. 

Call me twenty-four seven = at any time
It is raining cats and dogs = raining very heavily
Bury the hatchet = make peace

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Simile
a comparison between two objects
It's a metaphor with both objects mentioned, but with 'like' and 'as' 

The dark clouds covered the city like a thick black blanket.
The blood was as red as wine.

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Personification
human traits attributed to inanimate objects

Lightning danced across the sky. 
The wind howled in the night. 
My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.


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Euphemism
Understatement / Indirect expression
Not expressing 'the real thing', for instance to prevent shock / social taboo / embarrassing words

passed away instead of died
Let go instead of fired
not being a liar but being creative with the truth

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Oxymoron
A combination of contradictory or incongruous words
seemingly contrasting each other

awfully nice
deafening silence
pretty ugly
old news

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Onomatopoeia
a sound word
It creates a sound effect that 
mimics the thing described

A splash!
A 'buzzing' bee
The blood was gushing out

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Alliteration
The repetitive use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word within an expression.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Sheep should sleep in a shed.

Also referred to as tongue twisters. 

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