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Figurative Language
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7
English
8th Grade
09/24/2009

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Term
Apostrophe
Definition
a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and inanimate, as if animate
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Metaphor
Definition
a comparison of two things not using "like" or "as"
Term
Paradox
Definition
occurs when element of a statement contradict each other
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personification
Definition
the giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects or abstract ideas
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Oxymoron
Definition
a form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression
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Simile
Definition
a comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
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synecdoche
Definition
a part of something is used to signify the whole; the whole is uesd to represent a part 
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