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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 repetition 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 comparison of two things WITHOUT using 'like or as' |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words that sounds like the objects or actions they describe |
| oxymoron | a phrase that combines two seemingly contradictory elements |
| simile | a comparions of two things USING 'like or as' |