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a comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words LIKE or AS.
EX: Simba ran LIKE a bird. |
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a comparison of two unlike things not using like or as.
EX: Mike is the sun. |
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writing that gives inanimate objects abstract ideas or human characteristics.
EX: the wind whistled |
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the words or phrases a writer uses to present persons, objects, actions,ect. descriptively by appealing the 5 senses.
EX: the cookie was so soft, fluffy, it looked golden brown, and smelled so sweet and tasted so mushy and warm. |
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the use of any object,person, place or action that both has a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, attitude, belief, or value.
EX: ! ? .... , |
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the emotions or associations a word normally arouses in people using hearing, or reading the word. it can be positive or negative.
EX:yellow(cheerful voice) |
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the time and place of the action of a literary work.
EX: Billy was in the dark forest in the early hours of morning on a Sunday. |
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the writer's attitude toward his or her subject. tone can often be described by a single adjective.
EX: i hate Bobby-Joe |
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a central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work. a lesson about life or people.
EX: keep fighting and moving forward. |
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a contrast between appearance and reality-usually one in which reality is the opposite from what it seems; when one thing is expected to happen or be, and the exact opposite occurs.
EX: i will make the play! ( you don't make the play) |
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the use of words that sound like what they represent
EX: woof or moo or meow or OUCH! |
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a reference to a literary, mythological, or historical; person place or thing.
EX:Indiana Jones |
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a deliberate, extravagant and often outrageous exaggeration; may be used for either serious of comic effect
EX: i'm all eyes |
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a device in which words, sounds, and or ideas are used more than once t enhance rhythm and to create emphasis
EX: and he kept,ridding, ridding, ridding |
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a rhyme at the end of sentence in a poem
EX:the cat was fat |
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repetition or initial consonant sounds( when a phrase all stats with the same letter and or sound
EX: artful aid |
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