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exaggerating something for literary purposes which is not meant to be taken literally; we gorged on the banquet of beans on toast

similes, metaphors and personification; they all compare something 'real' with something 'imagined'.

a word that sounds like the noise it is describing: 'splash', 'bang', 'pop', 'hiss'.

Where two words normally not associated are brought together: 'cold heat' 'bitter sweet'.

attributing a human quality to a thing or idea: the moon calls me to her darkened world.