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What is comparison between two unlike things using the words "like," "as" or "than"
Simile
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What is vowel sounds are repeated within phrases or sentences that are close to each other in the text.
Assonance
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What is direct comparison without using the comparative words "like" or "as"
Metaphor
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What is Providing human characteristics to nonhuman things
Personification
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What is a play on words, centering on a word with more than one meaning or words that sound alike.
Pun
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What is A device that uses words, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning. Usually it is something you can touch or draw a picture of and it often will represent something you can’t touch or draw a picture of.
Symbolism
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What is placing different elements side by side in order to emphasize their differences, reveal surprising similarities, or explore a unique relationship between the two.
Juxtaposition
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What is a reference to a well-known person, place, thing or event of historical, cultural or literary merit. Allusion and Illusion are different terms.
Allusion
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What is an over-exaggeration used to emphasize an emotion or description
hyperbole
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What is repetition of the same consonant sound at the start of one or more words near one another
Alliteration
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