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Question | Answer |
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comparison of 2 unlike things using like or as | simile |
comparison of 2 unlike things without using like or as saying 1 thing is somthing else | metaphor |
Giving human characteristics to somthing that is not a human | personification |
Extreme exaggeration | hyperbole |
a "play" on words intended to be funny | pun |
repitation in 2 or more nearby words of intial constant sounds (SOUNDS NOT LETTERS) | alliteration |
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named | onomatopoeia |
a referance, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with wich the reader is is persumably familiar | allusion |
a phrasre whoses non literal meaning that must be applied | idiom |
an unexpected outcome | irony |