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FlashCards por Riley Babuik, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Riley Babuik
quase 6 anos atrás
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| Questão | Responda |
| Simile | Comparing two different things using the words "like" or "as" |
| Pun | A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that some words sound the same but have different meanings |
| Personification | Applying human characteristics to something non-human |
| Paradox | Something absurd or self-contradictory that can be investigated to be true |
| Symbolism | An object, place, or thing that represents something else |
| Allusion | An indirect call or reference |
| Alliteration | When each word in a sentence starts with the same letter or sound |
| Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration |
| Onomatopeia | A sound in the form of a word |
| Idiom | a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light) |
| Cliche | A phrase or opinion that is overused or unoriginal |
| Abstract | Existing in thought or as an idea but not having physical or concrete existence |
| Sarcasm | The use of irony to mock or convey contempt |
| Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. Eg. The Flames won by two goals or all hands on deck |
| Pathetic Fallacy | the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature |
| Imagery | Visually descriptive or figurative language |
| Oxymoron | When two opposite ideas are used to create an effect |
| Rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the end of words |
| Irony | the use of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite |
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