Flash cards

Simile?

• A comparison of two unlike objects or ideas using like or is

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• A comparison of two unlike objects or ideas using like or as

metaphor?

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• Giving a object human trates

• A comparison of two unlike objects or ideas not using like or as

personifcation

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• words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning

• Giving human qualities to a non-living object

alliteration?

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• Extreme exaggeration

• Repeating beginning sounds of words

hyperble?

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• Extreme exaggeration

• When the story gets fast and hyper

idiom

• expression that means something very different from the literal meaning of the words

• the opposite

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Verbal irony

• A contrast between what is said or written and what is really meant

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• sarcasm

• When you say something but you mean the opposite

Situational irony

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• A contrast between what is said or written and what is really meant

• When what happens is very different from what we expect would happen

Dramatic irony

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• Occurs when the viewer/reader knows something that the characters themselves do not know

• A person place thing or an event that has its own meaning and also stands for something beyond itself as well

symbol/symbolism

• A person place thing or an event that has its own meaning and also stands for something beyond itself as well

• object/ idea

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