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| acronym | FBI is an ________ for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
| alliteration | "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" |
| homograph | Fair is an example of a _________as it has more than one meaning |
| homophones | pear and pair |
| hyperbole | I've told you a million times to clean your room. |
| idiom | "Who let the cat out of the bag?" |
| metaphor | His voice was a cannon. |
| oxymoron | peacekeeper missile |
| personification | The floor groaned under her weight. |
| simile | She laughs like a hyena. |
| slang | outa, gotta, ain't, |
| acronym | A word that is formed from the first letter or first syllable of two or more words |
| alliteration | a technique repeating the same beginning sounds over and over |
| homograph | A word written the same way as another word but having a different meaning |
| homophones | Words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings |
| hyperbole | wild exaggeration, often on purpose for effect |
| idiom | a commonly used expression that means something different from what it appears to be and cannot be taken literaly |
| metaphore | comparison of two things not using like or as |
| similie | A comparison that uses like or as |
| personification | human characteristics given to non-human things |
