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Collin E
Vocabulary Grade 8 Week 4 Language Art
Term | Definition |
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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 |