English vocab 2/figurative language
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Hyperbole
Over exaggeration EX: I ate millions of cakes
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caricature
a satiric portrait or representation
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corroborate
to confirm
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precarious
dangerously unstable
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Expository
explanatory
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Bolster
to support ; to prop up
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Daunt
to intimidate ; to discourage
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Inclined
tending toward one direction
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Uniform
constant ; without variety
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Perceptive
having keen understanding ; discerning
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Simile
Comparing 2 things using like or as EX: she was as slow as a turtle
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Metaphor
Comparing 2 things without using like or as
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Personification
Giving a non-human human like-traits EX: the pencil ran away
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Onomatopoeia
using sounds EX: CLASH!, CLANG!
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Idiom
Expressions that mean something different than the true words meaning EX: Break a leg, Once in a blue moon
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Allusion
Personal references within a literacy text
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Oxymoron
Combines opposite and contradictory words EX: Cake is my achilles heel
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Alliteration
Words that start with the same sound or letter EX: All aligators ate apples
