An indication of a future event

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

deeper meaning given to everyday objects or events

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

an expression of whose meaning is not predictable.

comparing two things using like or as

what is personification??

give animals or inanimate object human like characteristics.

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English Language Arts 30-1

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I've asked you a million times to stop talking!
onomatopoeia
metaphor
hyperbole
assonance
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Repetition of the same consonant sound in the middle or at the end of surrounding words
alliteration
assonance
consonance
allusion
3
Choose the oxymoron:
Between jobs
I am nobody.
Awfully lucky
Best of all time
4
The emotional association of a word
consonance
connotation
denotation
symbolism
5
Repetition of the same vowel sound in surrounding words
assonance
alliteration
allusion
consonance
6
Simile or Metaphor?
Simile
Metaphor
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Foreshadowing
Comparing two things using like or as
Words or phrases that aren’t meant to be taken literally
An indication of a future event
An indirect reference
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What is a cliche?
A word or phrase that was once fresh but has become overused
A reference to a well known thing or figure of speech,
A type of metaphor giving human characteristics to objects..
A figure of speech that cannot be defined literally.
9
symbolism
deeper meaning given to everyday objects or events
section of a poem, usually with rhyme and length
words that create a mental image
words that have the same sound at the end
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Two usually contradictory words not normally put together but that still make sense
antithesis
oxymoron
juxtaposition
contrast
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What is a flashback?
To talk about something in the past
An occurrence to go back in time.
Time travel
a sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past
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what is an idiom??
the meaning that uses "pow,boom" ect.
the word that uses exaggerations.
an expression of whose meaning is not predictable.
the meaning that uses "like or as"
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Writers weave their witty, wonderful words into webs.
assonance
alliteration
allusion
consonance
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Purposely downplaying the importance or intensity of something
hyperbole
connotation
understatement
anaphora
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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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Similie
comparing two things using like or as
sudden story turn around
describing something to provide you with an image
gives personal pronouns to inanimate objects
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what is personification??
it makes the people of the society feel really thankful
it gives anything food.
give animals or inanimate object human like characteristics.
it makes all the animals that are locked up in cages free.

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