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Collin E

Vocabulary Grade 8 Week 4 Language Art

TermDefinition
Diction style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words
Allusion an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly
Imagery the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively
Rhythm a patterned repetition of a motif, formal element, etc., at regular or irregular intervals in the same or a modified form
Metaphor a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance without using like or as
Idiom an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements
Analogy a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based
Rhyme identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
Simile a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in
Hyperbole obvious and intentional exaggeration
Literal in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical
Rhyme Scheme A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song
Personifaction the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure
Onomatopoeia the formation of a word by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent
Figuritive of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor
Meter a rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables which are organized into patterns
Alliteration the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable
Symbolism is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense
Concrete checking the difference between cement and concrete when referring to an object, such as a bar counter top in a wine-tasting room
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