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analogy
An explanation or description of something unfamiliar or
difficult to explain
Ex: life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what your
going to get.
Ex: a star is like a street light; because they both light up in the
night.
hyperbole
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Exaggeration to create an effect.
Ex: I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
 Ex: He's 900 years old.
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paradox
A seemingly contradictory statement that
may nonetheless be true.
 Ex:the paradox that standing is more tiring
than walking.
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similie
a figure of speech in which two unlike
things are explicitly compared.
 Ex: she is like a rose
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metaphor
a figure of speech in which a term or
phrase is applied to something to which it
is not literally applicable in order to
suggest a resemblance.
 Ex: my life is like a dream.
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rhyme
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Correspondence of terminal sounds of
words or of lines of verse.
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Ex:Little Miss Muffet,
sat on her tuffet
alliteration
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the commencement of two or more
stressed syllables of a word group either
with the same consonant sound or sound
group.
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Ex: Dewdrops Dancing Down Daisies
irony
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The use of words to convey a meaning
that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
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The irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I
said I had to work all weekend.
onomatopoeia
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The formation or use of words.
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz,
personification
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To think of or represent.
Ex: My computer hates me.
 Ex: Wind yells while blowing.
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Flashback
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Is a scene or event that happened erlier
than the beginning of the story.
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Ex: Basically, the whole movie "The
Sandlot" is a flashback.
protagonist
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The main character in a drama or other
literary work.
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Ex like In Romeo and Juliet
antagonist
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The antagonist is the of the story.
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Ex: The Joker is the Antagonist of Batman!
Imagery
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The formation of mental images, figures,
or likenesses of things, or of such images
collectively
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The dim imagery of a dream.