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13 Cards in this Set
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simile
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comparison using like or as
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Ex: Sheis like a red rose
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metaphor
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comparison between two other thing not using like or as
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Ex:He is like a pig
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personification
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giving human charaistics to inanimate objects
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Ex: a smiling moon
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alliteration
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repitition of intial consent sound, general constant
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Ex: a dime a dozen
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assonance
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repition of vowel not constant sounds
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Ex: Fleet feet sweet by sleeping geeks
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onomatopeia
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word that imitates a sound it represents
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Ex: Whack, bam, growl, dink
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hyperbole
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exageration or overstatement
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Ex: big as a house
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irony
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implied discrepancy between what is said or what is meant/ three kinds verbal-says one thing means another/ dramatic- proceves something the character does not know/ situational
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imagery
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language that devlops one or all the 5 sent.
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Ex: the smell of fresh baked cookies
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allusion
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a brief refrence to a person, event, or place, real or fakecous, or to a work or art
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Ex: she is an einstien
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foreshadowing
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the use of hints or clues, to sugest what will happen later in literature
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pun
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usually humoros use of a word in such a way as to suggest to or more meaninigs or the meaningof another word in a similar sound
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oxymoron
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putting contradiery words together
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Ex: good grief, living dead, soft rock
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