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| A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. |
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| An asserton seemingly opposed to common sense, but that may yet have some truth in it.("what a pity that youth must be wasted on the young."shaw) |
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| A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. |
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| A figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike subject. |
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| A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics. |
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