English 10th Grade Final
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- a comparison w/o using the words like or as
- metaphor
- a person,place, oan activity,or an object that stands for something besides itself
- symbol
- reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religon, myth, politics, sports, science, or the arts
- Allusion
- comparison of two or more similar objects suggesting that if they are alike in certain respects they will probably be alike in other ways as well
- analogy
- the repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words
- alllieraton
- Type of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
- Personification
- Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning
- Onomatopoeia
- Figure of speech that uses exageration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect
- Hyperbole
- Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together
- Assonance
- A statement or a situation that seems to be a contradiction but that reveals a truth
- Paradox
- Substitution of a word to suggest what is really meant
- metonymy
- Use of understatement, usually to diminish the importance of something
- meiosis
- the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels
- Consonance
- recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work.
- Motif
- Directing the attention away from the audience and to a personified abstraction, either present or not
- Apostrophe