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Vocabulary 7
Words about writing and geography
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Figurative language | Words that are used in ways that aren’t purely literal |
| Personification | Describing something not human by giving it human characteristics |
| Simile | a comparison that isn't literal and uses like or as |
| Metaphor | an untrue comparison that doesn't use like or as. |
| sea | a large body of water completely or partly surrounded by land |
| sound | a broad, inland body of water, often between a coastline and one or more islands off the coast |
| delta | a flat, low-lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river and deposited at its mouth |
| harbor | a sheltered place along a shoreline where ships can anchor safely |
| absolute value | Thedistance of a number from 0 on the number line, and is indicated by drawing a bar on each side of the number. |
| equivalent fractions | Fractions that describe the same portion of a whole, or name the same number |