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figurative language
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English
6th Grade
02/21/2013

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metaphor
Definition
a figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different things, not using like or as
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simile
Definition
a figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different things especially a phrase containing the word like or as
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personification
Definition
the act of attributing human qualities of characteristics to animals,objects, or abstract idea
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hyperbole
Definition
an extravagant statement;extreme exaggeration;or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally
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idiom
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an expression that is separate from the literal meaning of definition of the words of which it is made
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alliteration
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the repetition of the same sounds of of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of a word
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assonance
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the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases of sentences do you like blue
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consonance
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a poetic device characterized by the repetion of the same consonant two or more times in short succession pitty patter
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onomatopoeia
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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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subjective pronoun
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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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ovjective pronoun
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a pronoun that is the object of the verb
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