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Language - English
6th Grade
02/19/2013

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Metaphor

 

Definition

a figure of speech that draws a comparison between Two different things not using like or as

 

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Simile
Definition
a figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different things especially a phrase containing the words like or as
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Personification
Definition
the act of attributing human qualities or characteristics to animals,objects ,or abstract ideas.
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Hyperbole
Definition
an extravagant statement; extreme exaggeration; or figure of speech not to be taken literally
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Idioms
Definition
an expression that is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made for example; break a leg
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Alliteration
Definition
the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kind of sounds at the beginning of a word for example Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers
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Assonance
Definition
the repetition of vowel sound to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences for example do you like blue
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Consonance
Definition
a poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession as in pitter patter 
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Onomatopeia
Definition
the formation or use of such as buzz or murmur that  imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions  in which they refer
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Subjective Pronoun
Definition
a personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a sentence the pronoun that performs the aciton verb
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Objective Pronoun
Definition
a pronoun that is the object of the verb
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