Week 23 Vocabulary

A detailed comparison that extends through multiple lines, paragraphs, pages, or an entire work

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Extended Metaphor

Repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words to create a lyrical effect

• Extended Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Giving a human quality or characteristic to something that is not human

• Personfication

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Analogy

An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Paradox

A comparison to show similarities between objects or ideas

• Extended Metaphor

• Analogy

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

A figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Analogy

• Paradox

A phrase that does not literally mean what it says, but is understood because of its popular use

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Extended Metaphor

Language used by writers to create images in the mind of the reader

• Analogy

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

Which of the following is an extended metaphor?

• ...Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest...

  Geo. Washington.

• Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything. -Alexander Hamilton

• 3+6=9 but so does 4+5. The way you do things is not always the only way to do them. Respect others ways of thinking. -Anonymous

• Make your life a masterpiece; Imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do. -Brian Tracy

Did you hear about the guy who lost his left arm? He's all right now.

• Pun

• Idiom