Figure of Speech | Types of Sentences | Examples | Parts of Speech | Greek and Latin Roots |
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What is personification?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
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What is simple?
1 independent
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What am I:
I told you to clean your room a million times
hyperbole.
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people, places or things
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What is two?
Bi means this.
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What is a simile
exaggerated statements
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What is complex?
1 independent, 1 dependent
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What am I:
Gary grumpily gathered the garbage
Alliteration
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and, but, so, for
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What is time?
Chron means this.
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What is a metaphor?
Figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect.
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What is compound complex?
2 independent, 1 or more dependent
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What am I:
You were as brave as a lion
Simile
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doing words
action words |
What is geo?
This means earth.
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What is a hyperbole?
Exaggerated statements
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What is a compound sentence?
2 independent joined by a comma
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What am I:
The dishes fells to the floor with clatter
Onomatopoeia
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modifies a noun
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What is likes fire?
Pyro means this.
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What is Idioms
A set of words that can have more than one meaning behind them.
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What is compound complex?
2 independent, 2 dependent
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What am I:
I been watching TV so long it feel like my eyes about to pop out
Idiom
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These words describe adjective, verb, or another _________________.
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What is scope?
To see.
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