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Flashcards by Henry Petrie, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Henry Petrie
about 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Simile | A comparison to show how two objects or ideas are similar. For example, "Her hair is as yellow as sunlight; her eyes shone like glass." |
| Metaphor | a comparison where one idea or object is figuratively shown as being something else. For example, "He groaned and jerked his way out of bed: a zombie fresh from the grave." |
| Hyperbole | Obvious exaggeration. For example, "I've told you a million times." |
| Personification | Giving human or animal characteristics or feelings to an inanimate object. |
| Pathetic Fallacy | a type of personification where emotions are reflected in the weather or other objects. For example, "a furious wind carried angry clouds overhead" |
| Onomatopoeia | sound-words, eg. bang, pow, swoosh. |
| Oxymoron | a combination of two words with opposing meanings, eg. bittersweet, deafening silence |
| Atmosphere | the overall mood created, which can be positive or negative depending on word choice. |
| The five senses | touch, taste, smell, sound, sight; use these to make your description stimulate different senses. |
| Descriptive verbs | eg. ‘bellowed’, ‘screamed’, or ‘hollered’ rather than ‘shouted’ |
| Big picture and zoom | Moving between an overview of a scene and specific details in the scene. |
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