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| A figure of speech that draws a comparison between two diffrent things,not using "like" or "as" |
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| A figure of speech that draws a comparison between two diffrent things, especially a phrase containing the word "like" or "as" |
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| The act of attributing human qualities or characteristics to animals, objects, or abstract ideas |
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| an extravagant statement;extreme exaggeration;or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally |
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| An expressions that is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made. For example: "Break a leg" or "The early bird get the worm" |
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| The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of a word. For example Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers |
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| The repetition of vowel sounds to creat internal rhyming within phrases or sentences. For example:Do you like blue? |
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| A poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, as in "pitter patter" or "all mammals nam Sam are clammy" |
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| The formation or use of words suchs as, buzz or murmur, that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions in whiche they refer |
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| A personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a sentence; the pronoun that performs the action verb |
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| A pronoun that is the object of the verb |
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