Definitions Definitions #2
100
What is comparison between two unlike things using the words "like," "as" or "than"
Simile
100
What is vowel sounds are repeated within phrases or sentences that are close to each other in the text.
Assonance
200
What is direct comparison without using the comparative words "like" or "as"
Metaphor
200
What is Providing human characteristics to nonhuman things
Personification
300
What is a play on words, centering on a word with more than one meaning or words that sound alike.
Pun
300
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
400
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
400
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
500
What is an over-exaggeration used to emphasize an emotion or description
hyperbole
500
What is repetition of the same consonant sound at the start of one or more words near one another
Alliteration






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