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9 Cards in this Set
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Hyperbole |
exagerated statement |
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Metaphor |
figure of speech |
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Personification |
giving an inanimate object a human characteristic |
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Onomatopoeia |
a sound effect |
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Analogy |
a comparison not using like or as |
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Anecdote |
a real short interesting story |
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oxymoron |
contradictory figure of speech |
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Paradox |
a statement that leads to a senseless end |
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Parallelism |
the use of excessive verbal conjunctions. |
