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Vocabulary 10\22\14
Language Arts 2
Term | Definition |
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Figurative | metaphorically so called: |
Simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”. |
Juxtaposition | the state of being close together or side by side. |
Lamb | a person who is easily cheated or outsmarted, especially an inexperienced speculator. |
Literal | true to fact; not exaggerated; actual or factual: |
Personification | describing a human to an animal |
Onomatopoeia | ohh awe yeah opps |
Foot | (of vessels) to move forward; sail: |
Connotation | something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or described: |
Hyperbole | over dramatic |
Tone | the sound of how deep how sqeeking you voice is |
Trochee | a metrical foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short |
Denotation | a word that names or signifies something specific: |
Idiom | a language, dialect, or style of speaking peculiar to a people. |
Mood | mad angry happy sad depressed |
Spondee | two syllable both are long |
Metaphor | as in the sentence |
Alliteration | billy bob built bob big building |
Imagery | imagination |
Lambic Pentameter | a common meter |