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10 Cards in this Set
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Hyperbole
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Exageration
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Image
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Creating an image
(sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell) |
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Metaphor
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A figure of speech in which one thing is compared indirectly in another essential dissimilar thing without the use of like or as.
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Simile
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Figure of speech in which the comparison between two unlike things is expressed directly, usually by means of like or as.
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Personification
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Giving human qualities to inanimate objects
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Symbol
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Figure of speech chosen to replace something other than itself, something that is not mentioned directly.
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Apostrophe
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Addressing the deceased or abstract idea.
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Tone
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Poet or speaker's attitude.
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Alliteration
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Repititon of sounds
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Allusion
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Reference to what is known.
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