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| Creative, shows relationships between unexpected things. Has a emotional component. |
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| Words taken at face value. Mean what they say, language of everyday speaking and writing. |
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| A comparison between essentially unlike things that uses like or as. |
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| A comparison that gives human qualities to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas. |
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| A concrete representation of an abstract idea. |
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| A figure of speech meaning obvious and deliberate exaggeration; an extravagant statement. |
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| The repetition of first consonant sounds, but not necessarily letters. |
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| A figure of speech in which words imitate sounds. |
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| Putting or being side by side or close together for emotional effect or comparison and contrast. |
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| A term that could possibly be used to hide an uncomfortable truth. |
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| Ordinary form of written or spoken language without rhyme or meter. Language that has rhythm. |
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-A rhythmic expression of imaginative or intense perceptions of the world, the person, and the relationship between the two.
-The personal and symbolic description of reality.
-Gives a unique expression to ordinary thing. |
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| The "perfect word". Conveying a dramatic message with an economy of words. |
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| Two contradictory statements that are both true. ex As humans, we are the same yet different. |
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| Difference between what is and what appears to be. |
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| addressing an absent person or abstract idea/concept. |
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-The central idea of a story or poem.
-The general idea or insight that the work reveals.
-Sometimes the writer states the theme directly, but more often only implies or suggests it. |
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| Continuation of a complete idea from one line to the next. |
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| Vowel and consonant sound the same. |
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| When words don't rhyme exactly. Prove/love |
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| At the end of two or more poetic lines. |
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| Within a single line, middle rhymes with end. |
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-Simple, One dimensional character.
-Not fully developed; lack's complexity |
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-Complex, multi-dimensional, subtle, unpredictable, spontaneous character.
-this character is so fully described as to be recognizable, understandable and individually different from all others.
-Surprising in a convincing way. |
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| A brief fictional work that concretely illustrates an abstract idea or teaches a lesson or truth. |
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| Joining opposites to create a situation that is totally unexpected. One way to create humor. |
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| Easy to manage or discipline; submissive |
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| Showing good judgment or understanding |
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| To consent; to agree; to concur |
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| Any indefinitely large number; innumerable. |
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| Cruel and unfeeling; harsh; violent; ruthless. |
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| To smile derisively; to show scorn or contempt. |
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| Skillful, clever; crafty. |
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| Disposed to avoid exertion. |
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| Not easily stirred emotionally. |
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| Offensively bold: impudent |
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| Having the expression of one wasted by want, suffering, anxiety, or age. |
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| Expressing contempt or mockery. |
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| Mysterious and incomprehensible. |
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| When you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. |
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| A main element, idea, or feature developed in a book, movie, piece of music, etc. |
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| A judgment or opinion formed before facts are known. |
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-Belief that Race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
-A doctrine or opinion without scientific support that claims to find racial differences in character or intelligence that asserts the superiority of one race over another and seeks to maintain racial purity.
-Applying behaviors of one to all. |
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| One intolerantly and blindly devoted to one's creed, party, or opinion. One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ. |
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| The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. |
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| An intentional and recurrent repetition of a word, phrase, or situation. ex It's not time to worry yet. |
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