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A Quilt of A Country
Cumulative Vocabulary From StudySync Quilt of a Country Lesson
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| context | the events, situations, or language that surround a particular word, phrase or piece of text that help explain its meaning |
| figurative language | expressions used for descriptive or rhetorical effect that are not literally true but that express some truth beyond the literal level |
| figure of speech | a word or phrase not meant to be taken literally, but rather used for effect |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares two seemingly unlike things but implies a comparison instead of stating it directly with the word like or as |
| personification | a figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea is given human form or qualities |
| simile | a figure of speech that uses the word like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things |