English vocab 2/figurative language

Hyperbole

Over exaggeration EX: I ate millions of cakes

caricature

a satiric portrait or representation

corroborate

to confirm

precarious

dangerously unstable

Expository

explanatory

Bolster

to support ; to prop up

Daunt

to intimidate ; to discourage

Inclined

tending toward one direction

Uniform

constant ; without variety

Perceptive

having keen understanding ; discerning

Simile

Comparing 2 things using like or as EX: she was as slow as a turtle

Metaphor

Comparing 2 things without using like or as

Personification

Giving a non-human human like-traits EX: the pencil ran away

Onomatopoeia

using sounds EX: CLASH!, CLANG!

Idiom

Expressions that mean something different than the true words meaning EX: Break a leg, Once in a blue moon

Allusion

Personal references within a literacy text

Oxymoron

Combines opposite and contradictory words EX: Cake is my achilles heel

Alliteration

Words that start with the same sound or letter EX: All aligators ate apples