English/Language arts
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geballar06 on January 31, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Allusion | A reference to something or someone who is well-known. |
| Figurative | Departing from a literal use of words; non-literal symbolic. |
| Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not to be taken literally. |
| Idiom | An expression with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the individual words. |
| Literal | Taking words in their usual or most basic sense; free from exaggeration representing the exact words in the original text. |
| Metapher | An expression that equates or compares two different things, without using the words "like" or "as". |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of a word that sounds like its meaning. |
| Personifacation | Giving of a personal nature or human characteristic to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. |
| Simile | An expression comparing one thing to another, using the words "like" or "as". |
| Symbolism | When something stands for something else. |
| alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds. |
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