https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17 Lk_03 en-us 2017-10-13 11:27:29 UTC 2017-10-20 04:35:29 UTC hello@padlet.com EnglishLK https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/196758388 A simile is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two different things. It shows resemblance with the help of the words "like"or "as". Example: "John is as slow as a snail."

]]> 2017-10-13 11:29:20 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/196758388 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/196805825 An allusion is a figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' minds.
Example: “Hey! Guess who the new Newton of our school is?” – “Newton”, means a genius student, alludes to a famous scientist Isaac Newton.]]> 2017-10-13 13:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/196805825 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/196828566 A rhetorical question is a question that you ask without expecting an answer. Sometimes the answer seems obvious and is therefore not necessary. Such questions push the reader to a certain conclusion. Example: Teacher to student: "Do you want to teach the class today?"]]> 2017-10-13 14:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/196828566 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/196948628 A hyperbole is a way of speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound bigger,better, more, etc.
Example:
 "I’ve told you a million times!"]]> 2017-10-13 19:01:57 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/196948628 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/196992637 It's a stylistic device in which a number of words having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.

Example: 
"But a better butter makes a batter better"

]]> 2017-10-14 02:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/196992637 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197014214 A pun is a figure of speech that is based on the ambiguity and the sensory distortions of words. It makes the author funny and witty. An example is: who never get's off the road remains on the track! ]]> 2017-10-14 10:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197014214 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197014298 The omission from a sentence or other construction of one or more words that would complete or clarify the construction.
 
 Example: 
 "After school I went to her house, which was a few blocks away, and then came home. 
  "After school I went to her house … and then came home."]]> 2017-10-14 10:15:53 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197014298 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197084289 With antithesis, opposites are clarified and emphasized. The structure of the individual sentence members is usually similar to direct attention to the contrast.
Example: "I sleep in the day, in the night I wake." ]]> 2017-10-15 07:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197084289 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197092900 Image that points to an abstract image idea.
Example:
white dove for: peace ; red heart for: love]]> 2017-10-15 09:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197092900 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197093365 Repetion is the action of repeating something that has already been said or written. 

Example: "If you think you can do it, you can do it."]]> 2017-10-15 09:21:15 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197093365 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197093989  the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny


Example: back home after a bad school day and you say "Yeah I love school!"]]> 2017-10-15 09:29:26 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197093989 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197099914 The juxtaposition of contradictory concepts and ideas that reaveals a hidden and/or unexpected truth.
It is used to make the reader think over an (common) idea.
Effect: creates a humorous effect because of its ridiculousness

Example: “This is the beginning of the end.“ / “Everyone is unique, just like everyone else.“]]> 2017-10-15 10:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197099914 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197101355 Is an expression that describes a person/object by refering to something that is considered to have similar characteristics to that person/object

Example: The city is a jungle.]]> 2017-10-15 11:09:22 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197101355 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197109287 Reproduction of feelings, thoughts, memories in key points

Example: Him. See. Now. Shit. Train is far away. Yes, don't look so stupid, monkey. Want him. ]]> 2017-10-15 13:02:53 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197109287 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197134073 The action of mentioning a number of things one by one.]]> 2017-10-15 17:05:01 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197134073 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197236769 Onomatopoeia is the use of a word which imitates the sounds it refers to, e.g. buzz or hum. In a group of words or a phrase it may evoke a particular feeling, mood, sound or movement. ]]> 2017-10-16 07:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197236769 lilli_2001 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197717752 is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. 
Example:
I wandered lonely as a cloud. ]]> 2017-10-17 11:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197717752 svennr23 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197831132 Is a word repitition at the 
beginning of the sentence.
Example: For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.]]> 2017-10-17 14:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197831132 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197854671 is the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which correspond in grammatical structure, sound, metre, meaning, etc. 
Examples: "What goes around, comes around."
"Like father, like son."
"Easy come, easy go."]]> 2017-10-17 15:29:52 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197854671 lena_hoffmann179 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197914066 is the act of stating something in restrained terms or in a way that makes it seem less important, serious, bad etc than it is. 
Example: After "Xavier", a heavy storm, devastated many parts of Germany a radio reporter said: "It was a bit windier than usual here."]]> 2017-10-17 17:07:12 UTC https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/197914066 antsocke211 https://padlet.com/EnglishLK/pqgi8lrpai17/wish/198123250 a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel... by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.

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