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Vocb. 17-20
poetry 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 sound like the objects or actions they describe |
| oxymoron | a phrase that combines two seemingly contradictory elements |
| similie | a comparison of two things USING 'like or as'. |