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Flashcards by Frankie Ped, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Frankie Ped
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds |
| Alliteration | Repetition of the same sound at beginning of words |
| Hyperbole | Gross exaggeration |
| Irony | Saying the opposite of what is meant |
| Metaphor | Comparison without the use of as or like |
| Simile | Comparison with the use of as or like |
| Metonymy | one word that has a very similar meaning can be used for another |
| Onomatopoeia | word that sounds like what it means |
| Paradox | contradiction within the same sentence |
| Personification | giving human qualities to inanimate objects |
| Pun | play on words |
| Synecdoche | one thing is meant to represent the whole |
| Understatement | the thing discussed is made to seem much less important than it really is |
| Antithesis | contradiction that pits two ideas against each other in a balanced way |
| Euphemism | Words that are used to soften the message |
| Oxymoron | puts two words together that seem to contradict each other |
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