Style notes

Techniques used to clarify or intensify larger passages or ideas, continue the plot, or make connections.

A comparison between two things using 'like' or 'as'

A comparison between two things without using 'like' or 'as'

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The comparison extends between two words.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas is called what?

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CCSS.L.6.5A

A play on words in which two words that sound similar are used with a purposely different meaning

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CCSS.L.8.5A

The use of pleasant language to express unpleasant ideas, events, or actions

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

An excessive overstatement or intentional exaggeration of a fact

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

An expression used in a particular language that has a different meaning than its literal interpretation.

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A reference within literature to an idea or event known in literature, history, or current events.

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3