A _________ is a comparison between two things that does not use the words like or as.

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A _______ is a comparison between two things that does use the words like or as to signal comparison.

An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant.

• Euphemism

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

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Bang! Boom! Pow! Crash!

• Allusion

• Personification

• Onomatopoeiaeia

• Assonance

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A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase (ex: jumbo shrimp)

• Euphemism

• Rhyme

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

Referring to something that is considered common knowledge is an...

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

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Hyperbole

• An exaggeration for effect

• Means the opposite of what it seems

• A reference to a piece of common knowledge

• Repetition of vowel sounds

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Personification is when...

• You refer to something considered common knowledge

• You repeat consonant sounds

• You give human-like qualities to non-human things

• You exaggerate to make a point

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Repetition of consonant sounds is...

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

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The repetition of vowel sounds within consecutive words is...

• Alliteration

• Euphemis

• Assonance

• Hyperbole

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