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Figurative Language
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15
English
8th Grade
01/25/2012

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Term
Alliteration
Definition
repeated sounds at the beginning of several words in a phrase
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Hyperbole
Definition
exaggeration
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Idiom
Definition
expression that cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements
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Irony
Definition
opposite of what is meant
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Metaphor
Definition
comparing two things not using like or as; it will use the words is, was, were
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
words that sound like what they are
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Personification
Definition
making inanimate object or animal act like a person
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Puns
Definition
a word, or words which are formed or sounded a like, but have different meanings; to have more than is possible
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Simile
Definition
comparing using like or as
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Oxymoron
Definition
putting two contradictory words together
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Assonance
Definition
the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence
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Allusion
Definition
a reference to a famous person or event in life or literature
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Rhythm
Definition
a regular patterns of stresses, like a beat
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Rhyme
Definition
when two words share the same final sound
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Repetition
Definition
repeating the same starting sounds of words
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