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10 Cards in this Set
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Define: Description
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Words that explain what something look likes, feel likes, taste likes, and smell likes.
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Define: Imagery
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Words used to give a reader pictures in their mind
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Define: Metaphor
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Compare two things that aren't similar without using as or like.
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Define: Onomatopoeia
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Is the use of words whose sounds suggest their meanings
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Define: Alliteration
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The repetition of a consanant sound at the beginning of words
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Define: Cliche
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An overused expression
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Define: Personification
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Is figurative language that gives human qualities to nonhuman things
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Define: Simile
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A comparison that uses the words like or as to compare two things
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Define: Figurative Language
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The imaginative and poetic use of words
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Define: Assonance
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The repetition of a vowel sound within words
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