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English
9th Grade
05/22/2012

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Alliteration
Definition
The repitition of the same consonat sound at the begining of two or more words.
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Imagery
Definition
Uses expresive or envocative images to repersent objects action, or ideas.
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Assonace
Definition
The repitition or pattern of similar vowel sounds,but with different end consonats in a line or passage.
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
A word that imitates a sound.
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Oxymoron
Definition
Combines opposite terms.
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Personification
Definition
When something non-human is given human charteristics.
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Pun
Definition
A play on words.
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Simile
Definition
A comparison using like or as.
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Symbolism
Definition
The practice of repersenting things by means of symbols.
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Allusion
Definition
A reference in a literary work, to a person, place, or thing in history.
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Idiom
Definition
Word or phrase used figurativly to express paticular meaning.
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Euphemism
Definition
A subject of an in offencive term for one to be consider offencive.
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Hyperbole
Definition
A great exaggeration used to make a point.
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Metaphor
Definition
States that one thing is something else
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Understatement
Definition
an author delibrity makes something seend less important.
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