What is the definition of simile?

comparing two things using like or as

What is the definition of personification??

give animals or inanimate object human like characteristics.

a sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past

deeper meaning given to everyday objects or events

A word or phrase that was once fresh but has become overused

an expression of whose meaning is not predictable.

What is foreshadowing?

An indication of a future event

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Literary Devices #1

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English Language Arts 11th grade

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What is the definition of simile?
comparing two things using like or as
gives personal pronouns to inanimate objects
describing something to provide you with an image
sudden story turn around
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What is the definition of personification??
give animals or inanimate object human like characteristics.
it gives anything food.
it makes the people of the society feel really thankful
it makes all the animals that are locked up in cages free.
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Choose the oxymoron:
Between jobs
Best of all time
I am nobody.
Awfully lucky
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The emotional association/meaning of a word:
connotation
consonance
denotation
symbolism
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Writers weave their witty, wonderful words into webs.
consonance
assonance
allusion
alliteration
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What is a flashback?
An occurrence to go back in time.
a sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past
Time travel
To talk about something in the past
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What is symbolism?
words that have the same sound at the end
deeper meaning given to everyday objects or events
words that create a mental image
section of a poem, usually with rhyme and length
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Repetition of the same vowel sound anywhere in 2 or more words of the same line.
consonance
alliteration
assonance
allusion
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Purposely downplaying the importance or intensity of something.
hyperbole
connotation
understatement
anaphora
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Simile or Metaphor?
Metaphor
Simile
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What is a cliche?
A figure of speech that cannot be defined literally.
A type of metaphor giving human characteristics to objects..
A reference to a well known thing or figure of speech,
A word or phrase that was once fresh but has become overused
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What is an idiom??
an expression of whose meaning is not predictable.
the meaning that uses "pow, boom" etc.
the meaning that uses "like or as"
the word that uses exaggerations.
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My friend's bakery burned down last night. Now his business is toast.
pun
paradox
prose
personification
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I've asked you a million times to stop talking!
metaphor
onomatopoeia
assonance
hyperbole
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What is foreshadowing?
Comparing two things using like or as
An indication of a future event
Words or phrases that aren’t meant to be taken literally
An indirect reference
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Two usually contradictory words not normally put together, but that still make sense.
contrast
oxymoron
juxtaposition
antithesis
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Repetition of the same consonant sound anywhere in 2 or more words of the same line.
consonance
assonance
allusion
alliteration

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