The comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound, but quite different in meaning.

An indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by saying its opposite, usually with an effect of understatement.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

An event, object, custom, person or thing that is out of its natural order of time.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A comparison of similar things, often to explain something unfamiliar with something familiar.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The description of one kind of sensation in terms of another.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A terse statement of a principal or truth; a maxim

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The use of words that seem to imitate the sounds they refer to (whack, fizz, crackle).

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an inanimate object or abstraction.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Any terse, witty, pointed saying

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3