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18 Cards in this Set
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Simile |
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as
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Metaphor |
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
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Personification
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Personal qualities
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Hyperbole |
Very exaggerating
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Irony |
Especially the opposite of the literal meaning
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foreshadowing |
To represent and indicate
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Flashback |
A pass incident recurring in the mind
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Symbol
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Something that represents a place , person , town, city etc
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Allegory |
A symbolic representation |
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Imagery |
Figurative language |
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Allusion |
The act of making an indirect your reference to something
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Oxymoron |
Incongruous of words |
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Cliche |
Expression |
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Idiom |
The language particular to a person
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Alliteration |
The repetitles of usually initial Consant sound in two syllables |
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Connotation |
The suggesting of a meaning by a word |
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Denotation |
The act or process |
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Onomatopoeia |
The sound of something |
