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Academic Vocabulary
Academic Vocabulary #8
Term | Definition |
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Opotion | one of the several things that can be chosen |
Optional | left to your own choice to do; not required |
essential | very important or necessary |
vital | very important or essential |
Simile | when two unlike things are compared using the words like or as |
metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things in which thing becomes another |
personfication | when a non-human thing is given human charateristics |
hyperbole | to stretch of the truth |
alliteration | the repetition of the begging consonant sound sound in a bunch of words |
onomatopoeia | a sound word or a sound affect |
repetition | repeating a word or phase for effect |