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Paraphrase
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Restate it in a different language
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Theme
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Central idea
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Denotation
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Dictionary meanings of the word
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Connotations
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What it suggests beyond what it expresses
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Imagery
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Representation through language of sense experience (olfactory, gustatory, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, organic)
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Figure of speech
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Any way of saying something other than the ordinary way
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Figurative language
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language using figures of speech
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Metaphor
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the comparison is not expressed
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Simile
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Comparison using like or as
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Personification
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giving attributes of a human to an object
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Apostrophe
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Addresses someone absent or dead as if that person or thing were present and alive and could reply to what is being said
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Synecdoche
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The use for the part for the whole
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Metonymy
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The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant
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Symbol
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Something that means more than what it is
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Allegory
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Narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface
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