What are the types of figurative language?

Answer:

imagery-using the senses to describe (eg,,the sun is bright)
alliteration-using the same letter/sounds to make a sentence flow smoothly (eg,, Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers)
metaphor-comparing two unlike things without using the words like or as (eg,,firey red or the road was a moonlit ribbon of light)
simile-comparing two unlike things using the words like or as (eg,, Santa's beard is white as snow)
onematepia-words that are the way they sound (eg,, pop, crackle, sizzle, snap, buzz...)
personification-giving an object or animal human characteristics (eg,, the tree swayed in the wind)
hyperbole-an exaggeration (eg,, she was a billion years old)
Idioms

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