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6th Grade
02/19/2013

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metaphor
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a figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different things,notusing "like" or "as"
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simile
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a figure of speech that draw a comperison between two different thing,especially a phrase containing the word "like" or "as"
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personification
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the act of attributing human qualities pr characteristics to animals,object, or abstact ideas
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hyperbole
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an extravagant statement; extreme exaggeratio; or figure of speech not intended to be talken idea
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idioms
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an expresion that is searate from the literal meaning of defintion of the words of wich it is made. For example: "Break a leg" or "the early
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Alliteration
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The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the word" beginning of a word. For example Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickle pepper
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Assonance
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The repitition of vowel sounds to create I internal rhyming within phrases or sentence. For example: Do you like blue
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Consonance
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A poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more time in short succession, as I "potter patter" or "all mammals named Sam are clammy"
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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 object or action in which they refer
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Subjective Pronouns
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A personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a sentence; the pronoun that performs the action verbs
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Objective Pronoun
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A pronoun that is the object of the verb
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