a meeting at which people talk to each other in order to ask questions and get information

to give reasons for or against something : to say or write things in order to change someone's opinion about what is true, what should be done, etc.

to form or state (an opinion) : to decide (something) after a period of thought or research

to take or get (something) from (something else)

to cause (someone) to believe something : convince

to think about something and make guesses about it

a book or account written by the person it is about

the story of a real person's life written by someone other than that person

the act of saying or doing something again : the act of repeating something

to be formed or made up of

to study (something) closely and carefully : to learn the nature and relationship of the parts of (something) by a close and careful examination

compares two unlike things without using like or as

compares two unlike things using like or as

to understand (something) in a specified way; decode

a comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way

an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has a separate meaning of its own

use of the same consonant sound at the beginning of each word

using words to imitate natural sounds

extreme exaggeration

giving human characteristics to nonhuman things or ideas