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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 characteristic 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 form the literal meaning or deffinition of the words of which it is made. for example "break a leg" or "the early bird gets the worm" |
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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 repetition of VOWEL sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentances. for example: dO yOU like blUE |
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| a poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same CONSONAUT 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 in which they refer |
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| a personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a sentence; the pronoun that preforms the action verb |
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| a prounoun that is the object of the verb |
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