Language Arts Students: All students must copy down the following terms and definitions. Students will be tested on their knowledge of these terms on the SPA test.
Literal Language: uses words with their usual dictionary definition.
Figurative Language: uses words in highly imaginative ways without their usual dictionary definitions.
Simile: is a comparison between two basically unlike things.
Metaphor: compares two basically dissimilar things without the use of connecting words such as like, as, or resembles.
Idiom: is a common expression in which the words don't really mean what they say.
Analogy: expression a comparison between two situations or ideas that are alike in one important way but different in others.
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