| Term | Definition |
|---|
| simile | comparing two things using "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | comparing two things not using "like" or "as" |
| imagery | descriptions that create a picture in your mind |
| sensory details | description that appeals to your five senses: taste, touch, sight smell, hear |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
| onomatopoeia | a word that imitates a sound: Boom! Bzzz! |
| personification | giving an inanimate object human characteristics: The flowers danced in the wind. |
| oxymoron | a phrase of opposites that seems to contradict itself: "cruel kindness," or "tough love" |
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