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Literary Terms
Handbook pg.60
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08/29/2005

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hyperbole
Definition
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.
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paradox
Definition
An asserton seemingly opposed to common sense, but that may yet have some truth in it.("what a pity that youth must be wasted on the young."shaw)
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metaphor
Definition
A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else.
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simile
Definition
A figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike subject.
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Personification
Definition
A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
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