English

4. between two or more persons.
6. of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal.
9. sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.
10. or character of sound.
11. attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
12. images, as in works of art.

1. act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
2. story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
3. by voice in the distinctively human manner, using arbitrary sounds in conventional ways with conventional meanings; speech.
5. formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
7. to or functioning as an adjective; adjectival: the adjective use of a noun.
8. figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared.
13. A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.