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English
11th Grade
11/03/2010

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Simile
Definition
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things, usually with "like" or "as".
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Metaphor
Definition
A figure of speech in which one thing is said to be another thing, without "like" or "as", or in which a likeness is implied.
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Alliteration
Definition
The repetition of an initial sound in words or accented syllables close together.
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Onomatopeia
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The use of words whose pronunciation suggests their meaning. "buzz" "hiss" "murmur" "boom" "glug"
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Hyperbole
Definition
A gross exaggeration for rhetorical effect
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Litotes
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A figure of speech in which a point is made by a denying of its opposite; a kind of understatement. 
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Oxymoron
Definition
A combination of two apparently contradictory words.
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Antithesis
Definition
The strong contrast of expressions, clauses, sentences, or ideas within a balanced grammatical structure.
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Personification
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The giving of human qualities to something that is not human.
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Pathetic Fallacy
Definition
Attributing human feelings to inanimate things: an aspect of personification.
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Apostrophe
Definition
Addressing a personified object, or an absent person as though present.
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Metonymy
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A figure of speech in which the name of a thing is used for something else associated with it; virtually synonymous with synecdoche.
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Allusion
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A passing reference to something; an indirect mention.
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Irony
Definition
Saying the opposite of what is meant, by way of mockery
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Symbol
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An object or a story element which has a basis meaning yet which also another meaning; for example a dove is a symbol of peace even though it a bird
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