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13 Cards in this Set
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Words that imitate natural sounds
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Onomatopoeia
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Repetition of initial consonant sounds
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Alliteration
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Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects
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Personification
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A reference to a person, place, or thing
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Allusion
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A concise statement of a principle; proverb, cliche
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Aphorism
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If two or more things agree with each other
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Anaology
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Addressing, speaking to something inanimate, dead, or not there
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Apostrophe
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Repetition of constant sounds
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Consonance
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Repetition of vowel sounds
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Assonance
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Extreme exaggeration
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Hyperbole
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Comparison of two unlike things using words "like" or "as"
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Simile
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Comparison of two unlike thing without using words "like" or "as"
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Metaphor
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Use of a part to represent the whole; usually part of a body
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Synecdouche
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