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ANN FRANK
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Language - English
6th Grade
02/22/2013

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Metaphor
Definition
A figure that draws a comparsion between two things, not using like or as.
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Simile
Definition
A figure of speech that draws a comparsion between two differnt thing using like or as.
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Personification
Definition
The act of attrdibuting human qualities or characteristics to animals, objects, or ideas.
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Hyperbole
Definition
An extraveagant statement; extreme exaggeration; or a figure of speech not to be intended to be taken literally.
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Idiom
Definition
An expression that is sepperated for the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it it made. (example: break a leg)
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Alliteration
Definition
The repitaion of a vowel sound to crreat a internal rhyming within phrases or sentences.
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Consonace
Definition
A poetic device that characterize by the repetition on the same consonant two or more times in short succession.
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
The formation use of a word such as, buzz or murmur, that imitate the sound associated with the objects or actions when they refer.
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Subjective Pronoun
Definition
A personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a sentence; the pronoun that performs the action verb .
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Objective Pronoun
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A pronoun that is the object of the verb
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