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Understanding Metaphors and Similes by terezki is a document available to read on EtoBox.
A metaphor asserts that one thing is something that it literally is not. It is a figure of speech that uses words in ways that are not literal. A simile compares two things using like or as, while a hyperbole exaggerates for effect without being literal. Personification gives human traits to non-human objects, and an idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be derived directly from the words. A euphemism substitutes an inoffensive term for an unpleasant one. Irony involves a difference between the literal and
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