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Figurative Language Vocab.
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English
9th Grade
05/22/2012

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Alliteration
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The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words
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Imagery
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uses expressive or exocaitive (bringing strong emotion) images to represent objects, actions, or ideas
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Assonance
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the repetition or a pattern of similar vowel sounds, but with a different end consnant is a line or passage of verse or prose
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Onomatopoeia
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use of words that sound like what they mean
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Oxymoron
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a figure of speech that joins together two seemingly contradictory elements
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Personification
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giving a human characteristics to an animal object or idea
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pun
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a play on words
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Simile
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a comparison using "like" or "as"-usually comparing dissimilar objects
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Symbolism
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the practice of representing things by means of symbols or attributing symbolic meaning
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Allusion
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a reference in a literary work to a person, place or thing in history or another work of literature
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Idiom
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word or phrase used figuratively to express a particular meaning understand by a common group of people
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Euphemism
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a substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered to be offensive
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Hyperbole
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a great exaggeration used to make a point
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metaphor
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a comparison that DOES NOT use "like" or "as"
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Understatement
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the opposite of hyperbole (minimizes what we know to be true)
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Sentimentality
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overly emotional ideas
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