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Jan.17-19
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Figurative Language | language that uses figures of speech and cannot be taken literally |
| Alliteration | the repition of beginning consonant sounds in words |
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration that something either has much more or much less of a quality than it actually has |
| Idiom | an expression with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the individual words |
| Imagery | mental pictures that are created with words |
| Metaphor | a compariosn of two things WITHOUT the using of 'like or as' |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words that sounds like the objects or actions they discribe |
| Oxymoron | a phrase that combines two seemingly contradictory elements |
| Simile | a comparison of two things USING like or as |