Figure of Speech
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Slogan
100

Is when you give an animal or object qualities or abilities that only a human can have

Personification

100

A person who tells a story

Narrator

100

To study all the parts of something

Analyze

100

When something is spoken and not written

Oral

100

Just do it

Nike

200

is an exaggeration used for emphasis or humor. It's often used to make something sound much bigger and better than it actually is

Hyperbole

200

deliberately make (someone) annoyed or angry

Provoke

200

is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

Drama

200

are hints that the author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word

Context Clues

200

Impossible is nothing

Adidas

300

a figure of speech comparing two unlike things using like or as

Simile

300

the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work. It is the storyline of a text

Story Plot

300

is the character in a story that is against the protagonist

Antagonist

300

the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

Protagonist

300

I'm lovin it

McDonals

400

are phrases that have a meaning that is very different from its individual parts. For example the saying "a piece of cake" means something that's simple to accomplish

Idioms

400

deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

Infer

400

It uses word play for humorous effect

Pun

400

A series of events build toward the point of greatest interest/ is the logical result of the climax

Rising/falling action

400

Melt in your Mouth, Not in your Hand

M&M’s

500

is a figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren't alike but do have something in common

Metaphor

500

can best be defined as descriptive language. It is the use of words or pictures in books, films, paintings, etc

Imagery

500

to describe or explain one thing by examining its similarities with another thing

Analogy

500

The use of language to convey meaning other than what is stated or to express a contradiction between what is expected to happen and what actually happens

Irony

500

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