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Name of the category with similes/metaphors/personification etc?

similes metaphors personification idioms hyperbole alliteration etc.

I KNOW WHAT THEY ARE

But what are they called as a group? Figures of speech? Literary terms? I'm not sure.

I'm trying to say "In this poem there are many _____" (There are lots of similes, alliteration and personification.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    They are called literary terms or language techniques

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Language techniques

  • 6 years ago

    figurative language

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