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7 Cards in this Set
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simile
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a stated comparison between two things that are unlike but have same thing in common. her hair was soft as silk. his hands were rough as bark
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metaphor
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her smile, a bright ray of sunshine in my day- a form of figurative language that makes a comparison between two things that have something in common, does not use like or as.
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onomatopoiea
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woof, oink- moo, meow- the process of creating or using words that imitate sounds.
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personification
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the trees danced in the wind- the alarm clock growled at me, then started to screech- a figure of speech in which human qualities are given to an object, animal, or idea.
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alliteration
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wonderful women walk- sneaky snakes slither- the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
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assonance
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cry, die, shy- heal, feed, beam- repetition of a vowel sound within nonrhyming words.
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consonance
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love slug bug- chilling little bowls- the repetition of consonant sounds within and at the ends of the word.
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