Hon. English 11-20
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Figure of Speech | Any unordinary, more expressed way of saying something |
| Simile | A direct comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as", or a similar comparitive term |
| Metaphor | A comparison that replaces literal language with figurative language |
| Personification | The attribution of human qualities to the inhuman or animate qualities to the inanimate |
| Apostrophe | An address to the absent, dead, or inanimate as if it could reply |
| Synecdoche | A literary device that uses the part for a whole or the whole for the part |
| Metonymy | A literary device that uses something closely related for the thing actually ment |
| Imagery | The representation of sence experience through language |
| Scansion | The process of marking stressed and unstressed |
| Meter | The measured rhythm of a line of poetry |
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