Figurative language - Saying one thing but meaning something else.
Literal language - Meaning exactly what you say.
Simile - Compering two unlike things using the words like or as.
Metaphor - Compering two unlike things not using the words like or as.
Personification - Giving human qualities to non-human things
Imagery - Writing with detail to arouse one or more of the five senses.
Idiom - A phrase common to people who speak the same language - saying one thing but meaning another.
Hyperbole - An exaggerating on facts.
Alliteration - Repetition of constraint sounds in a piece of writing.
Idioms
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What am I wondering? How long have idioms been around for and who wrote the first idiom.
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