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| The repetition of the same constant sound at the beginning of two or more words. |
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| Uses expressive or evocative images to represent objects, actions, or ideas. |
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| The repetition or a pattern of similar vowel sounds, but with different end constants in a line or passage of verse or prose. |
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| A word that imitates a sound -- It is written by the way it sounds. |
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| When something that is not human exhibits human characteristics. |
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| A comparison using "like" or "as" usually comparing dissimilar objects. |
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| The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships. |
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| A reference in aliterary work to a person, place, or history of another work of literature. |
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| Word or phrase used figurativly to express a particular meaning understood by a common group of people. |
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| A substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered to be offensive. |
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| A great exaggeration used to make a point. |
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| States that one thing is something else, it's a comparison but it does not use "like" or "as" |
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| An author deliberatley makes something seem less important than it really is. |
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