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What is a visually descriptive or figurative language? | imagery |
What is a thing that represents or stands for something else? | symbol |
What is it called when the author uses words and details that appeal to a reader's senses (sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell, emotion)? | sensory language |
What is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words? | alliteration |
What is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which is not literally applicable? | metaphor |
What is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more empathic or vivid? | simile |
What is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form? | personification |
What is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation? | epic poetry |
What is a genre of poetry that expresses personal and emotional feelings? | lyrical poetry |
What is whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else? you are using figurative language. | figurative language |
What is a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong? | argument |
What is an important topic or problem for debate or discussion? | issue |