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What is a metaphor

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A direct comparison using like it as

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What is a simile ?

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A comparison using like or as

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3
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What is personification?

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Giving inanimate objects human characteristics/qualities

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4
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What is hyperbole?

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Exaggeration

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5
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What is onomatopoeia

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Sounds of a word e.g. Bang

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Oxymoron

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Combination of opposite e.g. Firey ice

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Alliteration

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Repeated constant sounds at the beginning of consecutive words

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Rhyming

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Words sounding the same

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Stanza

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Length of lyric, paragraph or poem structure

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Repitition

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Using the same words or phrase normally important ideas

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Jargon

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Technical terms

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Anecdote

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Personal story

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Listing

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Things in a row with commas normally, mostly key ideas

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Rhetorical question

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A question not wanting a answer

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Short sentence

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Normally 1-3 words for impact.

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Incomplete sentence

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Something that does not finish. For impact

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Semantic fields

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Mood changer

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Emotive language

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Personal point or feelings

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Present tense

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There and now what’s going on

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Tense

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The way the text is written whether from past, present or future

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Extended Metaphor

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A metaphor that goes on for a while

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Pun

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Phrase , catchy saying

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Personal pronouns

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Mentioning ‘I’ personal

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Long sentences

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A sentence with a big length

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Statistics

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Information- data from research backing up point of view

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Impeative

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A command prompting an action

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Allusion

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Reference to well known story, person , or event

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Colloquial language

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Informal language gives sense of familiarity or informality

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Adjective

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Describing word

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Cliche

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A phrase that has been over used lost original meaning

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Verb

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Action or doing word

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Adverb

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Describes a verb

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Noun

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Naming word

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Formal language

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Formal words to help create formal tone