Module 2 Lesson 21-36 Vocabulary

the act of giving human attributes to nonhuman things

• simile

• advantage

• personification

• metaphor

comparison between two unlike things using words such as like or as

• simile

• advantage

• hideous

• emerge

comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using words such as like or as

• mezzotint

• myth

• malfunction

• metaphor

a good or desirable quality or feature that helps a person succeed

• mezzotint

• advantage

• constellation

• personification

not working properly

• mezzotint

• malfunction

• constellation

• personification

a story, often about supernatural characters, passed down to explain something about the world

• emerge

• hideous

• myth

• metaphor

very ugly or disgusting

• mezzotint

• hideous

• simile

• metaphor

arrangement of stars that seem to make a picture

• constellation

• personification

• malfunction

• myth

to come out into view

• advantage

• personification

• simile

• emerge

a print made from an engraved copper or steel plate

• hideous

• metaphor

• mezzotint

• constellation