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| figurative lanaguage | writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally; often used to create vived impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things |
| figurative language examples | metaphors, similes, and personifications |
| literal language | uses words in their ordinary senses; opposite of figurative language. |
| literal language | literal meaning |
| dentotaion | independent of other associations that the word may have. |
| connotations | the set of ideas associated with a word in addition to its explicit meaning |
| connotative meaning | words can have shades of meaning, can be positive or negative |
| technical meaning | language specific to a certain discipline or field of work, study, or play; words that have specialized meanings in a particular field. |
| passive voice | a form of to be + the past participle form of a verb |
| to be verbs | am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been |
| active voice | follows the order of subject, verb, object |
| active voice focuses on | the agent performing the action |
