Vocabulary
Figurative Language
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This vocabulary word means something is not congruent or does not fit in

What is incongruency?

100

An example of this type of figurative language is "Poverty was the cage in which we were all trapped"

What is a metaphor?

100

This vocabulary word means the quality of being clear

What is clarity?

200

This vocabulary word desribes a pointless action

What is futile?

200

An example of this type of figurative language is "For the most part, those days are ill-defined in my memory, running together and combininglike a fresh watercolor painting left out in the rain"

What is a simile?

300

This vocabulary word means that something is dry or describe land that lacks water

What is arid?

300

An example of this type of figurative language is "...the brown, crumbly dust of late summer- arid, sterile dust that gets into the eyes..."

What is imagery?

300

This vocabulary word means to be made extremely poor

What is impoverished?

400

This vocabulary word means doing something intentionally harmful or spiteful

what is malicious?

400

An example of this type of figurative language is "...I remember only the dry september of the dirt roads and grassless yards of the shanty town..."

What is setting?

500

This vocabulary word means to feel remorse for having done wrong

What is contrition?

500

"Whenever the memory of those marigolds  flashes across my mind, a strange nostalgia comes with it and remains long after the picture has faded."

What is foreshadowing?

500

This vocabulary word means to be undisturbed, calm, or quiet

What is placidly?