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vocab 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Figurative | of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal |
| Simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, |
| Juxtaposition | an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. |
| Iamb | a person who is gentle, meek, innocent, |
| Literal | in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorica |
| Personification | 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, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent |
| Foot | walking or running motion; pace: |
| Connotation | the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: A possible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth, comfort, and affection |
| Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration |
| Tone | any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc |
| Trochee | a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter |
| Denotation | the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it |
| Idiom | an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, |
| Mood | a state or quality of feeling at a particular time |
| Spondee | a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter |
| 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 |
| Alliteration | the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration) as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable |
| Imagery | the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively |
| Iambic Pentameter | a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable |
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