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| onomatopoeia | a word that imitates a sound - buzz, squeek, hiss, thud |
| metaphor | a figure of speech comparing 2 unlike things WITHOUT using like or as - life is a journey without a map, His room is a pigsty. |
| personification | to think of or represent as a person, to give something that isn't human human characteristics - the flag waved forlornly in the summer heat |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing 2 unlike things using like or as- Life is LIKE a journey without a map |
| rhyme | to end with the same sound - loud crowd, dog log |
| alliteration | a repeating sound at the beginning of words - a dirty dog dug deep depression in the dirt |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis - I'm so hungry I could eat a horse! |
| idiom | an expression that cannot be understood by the words themselves, but must be learned as a whole - She has butterflies in her stomach. The bride had cold feet before her wedding, |
| pun | a joke using multiple meanings of a word or words - doctors never yell. They have patients. |
| palindrome | a word or phrase that is spelled the same backwards and forwards, race car- Draw, O Coward, noon, radar |
| meter | a planned rythm in poetry - A dog went to the park(6), He saw a duck and barked(6), The duck was scared and flew away (8), Poor dog just wanted to play (7). |
| rhythm | a flow of rising and falling sounds in poetry by a regular repeating of stressed and unstressed syllables - A dog went to the park, He saw a duck and barked, The duck was scared and flew away, Poor dog just wanted to play. |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| theme | the underlying meaning or big idea |
| verse | a line of writing in which words are arranged in a rhythmic pattern |
| imagery | using words to paint a picture in the reader's mind - the blood red roses had dew drops that looked like diamond in the first pale rays of morning sunlight. |
| symbol | something that stands for something else-green can symbolize envy or jealousy |
