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Jan. 17-20
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Figuartive Langage | language that uses figures of speech and cannote be taken literally |
| alliteration | the repetion 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 meanign different from the literal meaning of the individual words |
| imagery | mental pictures that are created with words |
| metaphor | a comparions of two thing WITHOUT using 'like or as' |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like the objects or actions they describe |
| oxymoron | a phrase that combines two seemingly contradictory elements |
| simile | a comparion of two thing USING 'like or as' |