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Terms
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Comparing two objects using like or as.

Simile

100
Comparing two objects without using like or as
Metaphor
100
The stale bread was as hard as a rock.
Simile
100
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
100

the most exciting moment of the story, where the main character faces  his/her ultimate challenge

Climax

200

Using extreme exaggeration.

Hyperbole

200

Repeated consonant sound at the beginning of words or within words

Alliteration

200
The car lights blinked in the distance.
Personification
200

Rhe rise of the baseball team from last place to first was a real Cinderella story.

Allusion

200

mental pictures which are created by descriptions of the 5 senses, so that we can see and feel what the character is experiencing  

Imagery

300
Giving human qualities to an object or animal
Personification
300

Mental pictures which are created by descriptions of the 5 senses, so that we can see and feel what the character is experiencing  

Imagery

300

Boom, splat, buzz, kachoo!

Onomatopoeia

300

The boy's stomach was a bottomless pit.

Metaphor

300

the meaning of a story, lesson, what it reveals about human nature

Theme

400

A statement that reveals a kind of truth although at first it seems to be  self-contradictory and untrue

Paradox

400
Using a play on words. (Someone attempting to be funny, but it usually is not.)
Pun
400
It was so cold outside, I thought I would die. (Could it really have been THAT cold?)
Hyperbole
400

Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're gonna get

Analogy

400

any person, object, or action that has additional meaning beyond itself

Symbol

500
A figure of speech that does not literally mean what it says. It has usually been passed down from generation to generation.
Idiom
500

A figure of speech in which two contradictory words are combined in a single expression, giving the effect of a condensed paradox

Oxymoron

500
The early bird get the worm.
Idiom
500

The firestation caught on fire.

Irony (situational)

500

the author’s attitude toward a subject, revealed by choice of words and  details

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