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| a figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different things, not using like or as. |
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| a figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different things especially a phrase containing the word like or as. |
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| the act of attributing human qualities or charectoristics to animals, objects, or abstract ideas. |
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| an extravagant statement; extreme exaggeration; or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally. |
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| an expression that is seperate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made. for example: break a leg |
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| the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of a word. for example: Peter Piper Picked A Peck of Pickled Peppers. |
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| the repitition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences. for example: do you like blue |
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| a poetic device characterized by the repeition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession as in pitter patter or all mammals named sam are clammy |
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| the formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions which they refer to. |
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| a personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a sentence, the pronoun that performs the action verb. |
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| a pronoun that is the object of the verb |
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