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onomatopoeia: using words that imitate the sound they denote

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counterfeiting collapse

mirroring collapse

plagiarism collapse: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own; a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work

impersonation collapse: imitating the mannerisms of another person

fakery collapse: the act of faking (or the product of faking)

figure of speech collapse

malapropism collapse: the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar

forgery collapse: criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud

simile collapse: a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

simulation collapse: the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training); (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program; "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated"

imposture collapse: pretending to be another person

parody collapse: humorous or satirical mimicry; a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way; make a spoof of or make fun of

repetition collapse: the act of doing or performing again; the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device

takeoff collapse: a departure; especially of airplanes; the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne

metaphor collapse: a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

following collapse: a group of followers or enthusiasts; immediately following in time or order; "the following day"; "next in line"; "the next president"; "the next item on the list"; going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction; "the crowd of following cars made the occasion seem like a parade"; "tried to outrun the following footsteps"

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