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To add to the facts in a way that distorts the meaning
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| A kind of small plant that grows in moist, shaded areas |
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| In a severe, strict, or scolding manner |
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| The act, manner, or sound of walking |
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| To twist one's fate, as if in pain |
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| A musical piece written for one or two instruments, consisting of one or more movements, or sections |
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| A person who plays music while another person performs |
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| A tryout for a performing role or a job |
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| Music that is played along with another's performance |
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| A mistake in thinking or in judgement; in baseball , a mistake in fielding the ball |
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| To declare-- often in writing--that an artwork or a project is in honor of a person |
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The tower at an airport from which planes are guided to take off and land
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In baseball or softball, the batting order for a team
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| Manufactured by humans as a substitute for something natural |
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| 3 main parts of a paragraph |
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- Topic Sentence
- Body
- Closing or Conclusion Sentence (sometimes called the "clincher"
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a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things.
"like" or "as"
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Our soldiers are as brave as lions.
Her cheeks are red like a rose. |
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Metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristics common between them
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My brother was boiling mad.
The assignment was a breeze.
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Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes.
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Look at my car. She is a beauty.
The wind whispered through dry grass. |
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a word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting.
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The buzzing bee flew away.
The sack fell into the river with a splash. |
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a stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of a phrase.[1] "Alliteration" from the Latin word “litera”, meaning “letters of the alphabet”
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And, baby, now we’ve got bad blood |
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Hyperbole, derived from a Greek word meaning “over-casting” is a figure of speech, which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.
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My grandmother is as old as the hills.
She is as heavy as an elephant! |
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