| A | B |
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| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds in words |
| onomatopoeia | a word that makes the sound of the action it describes |
| simile | a comparison using "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | a direct comparison of two unlike things |
| personification | a comparison that gives human qualities to inanimate objects |
| hyperbole | a great exaggeration used to emphasize a point |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in words |
| idiom | an expression whose meaning is different from the literal meaning of words |
| irony | an event or result that is opposite of what is expected |
| symbolism | objects or images representing something abstract or universal |
| connotation | the positive & negative associations a word has |
| denotation | the dictionary definition of a word |
