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| A figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different things, not using " like" or "as". |
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| A figure of speech that draws a comparsion between two different things, especially containing the word "like" or "as". |
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| The act of attributing human qualities or chaarateristics to animals, objects, or absract ideas. |
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| An extravagant statement;extreme exaggeration; or figure or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally |
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| An expression that is seperate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made. For example: "break a leg" or " the early bird gets the worm". |
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| The repetiton 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 repition of VOWEL sounds to create 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 constant two or more times in short succession, as in " pitter patter" or " all mammals named sam are clammy". |
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| The formation or use of words such as, buzz or murmur, that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions in which 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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