Fugures Of Speech Flashcards

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Metaphor

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Comparing two things that. Are not alike. The comparison can be created by stating that one thing is said to be another

Ex. He is a star in Hollywood

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Simile

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A metaphor that uses special comparisons words such as like or as and than to compare two unlike things

Ex. He had legs like toothpicks

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Personification

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Provides an inanimate object(non living thing) with human qualities or charectoristics

Ex. The sun smiled down on the happy village

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that tries to imitate the sound it describes

Ex. The chains rattled and u moaned as the cat meowed

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Alliteration

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When a group of two or more words repeat the same initial constant sounds. That is, the sound being repeated is at the start of the words ( tough twisters are alliterations

Ex. He hurried horror driven

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