https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz While looking at your Figurative Language Definition Handout, come up with simpler language definitions & an example for your three words. en-us 2022-10-18 18:54:27 UTC 2023-02-21 19:54:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490200969 a example: the blue sky and blooming pink flowers 

]]> 2023-02-21 19:40:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490200969 https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490201922 Understatement-
Presenting something as less or less important.
Example: I have a heart surgery tomorrow, it's no big deal.

Idiom-
A sentence that means something different from its actual meaning. Not to be taken literally. 
Example: I'm all ears. (I'm listening).]]> 2023-02-21 19:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490201922 jl10992 https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490202180 Alliteration-the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. EX: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. 

Repetition - the action of repeating something that has already been said or written. Ex: what is foul is fair and fair is foul.


]]> 2023-02-21 19:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490202180 https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490202344 personification- something giving human characteristics 
Example- The sun smiled down on us 
Onomatopoeia- A sound word
Example- POW, BOOM, OUCH 

Kiraa, Makayla, Mary, Elijah]]> 2023-02-21 19:41:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490202344 https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490202392 an example: her heart is red, meaning her heart is full of love ]]> 2023-02-21 19:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490202392 https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490203888 Comparing things using like or as multiple times

Example- She's as blind as a bat]]> 2023-02-21 19:43:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490203888 dw11395 https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490203932 Allusion: Something that is said or written that is intended to make you think of a particular thing or person. 
(Ex: Chocolate cake is my Achilles heel)

Metonymy: The use of a link term to stand in for an object or concept. 
(Ex: Lend me your ears)]]> 2023-02-21 19:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490203932 https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490208082 Using milder words in place of blunt or harsh words

Example- the use of "Passed away" instead of "Died"]]> 2023-02-21 19:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490208082 https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490208785 an expression that was once innovative but has lost its value due to overuse.

-Red as a rose
Oxymoron- describes words or a phrase, but together it creates a contradiction
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old news


]]> 2023-02-21 19:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490208785 https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490211445 Something that sounds unbelievable but is true.

Example: "All animals are created equal, but some are created more equal than others."]]> 2023-02-21 19:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490211445 https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490214375 a word that refers to something entirely, Ex:
Count heads: means to count the amount of people

]]> 2023-02-21 19:53:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490214375 https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490215476 the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which sound meaning meter meaning etc 
speaking for someone 
ex: she aspires to finish college]]> 2023-02-21 19:54:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mlaubscher2/ecalikpq08r2f0qz/wish/2490215476