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29 Cards in this Set
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My brother and I don't see eye to eye.
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idiom
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I am so hungry that I could eat a million pancakes.
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hyperbole
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I feel like a limp dishrag.
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simile
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The sizzling of the steak on the grill made me hungry.
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onomatopoeia
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Ten tiny toads hopped towards the tree.
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alliteration
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The yellow daffodils nodded their heads at the walkers.
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personification
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A white blanket covered my yard when I awoke.
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metaphor
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I have a million things to do today.
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hyperbole
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It’s raining cats and dogs.
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idiom
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using a direct comparison (one thing is another)
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metaphor
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an expression that doesn’t really mean what it says
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idiom
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a humorous, rhyming, poem with five lines and a set meter and rhyme scheme
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limerick
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repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a word
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alliteration
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words that imitate sounds
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onomatopoeia
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the rhythmical pattern of poetry
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meter
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a poem with a shape that suggests its subject (or topic)
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concrete
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repetition of similar sounds at the end of a word
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rhyme
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three-lined Japanese poem about nature with set syllables
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haiku
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a comparison using like or as
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simile
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a poem not written in a regular rhythmical pattern and is without rhyme
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free verse
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a story told using poetry
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narrative poem
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a seven-lined poem, using specific parts of speech to compare two topics or subjects
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diamante
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a deliberate exaggeration to make writing interesting
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hyperbole
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a poem that uses the letters in the topic word to start each verse
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acrostic poem
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gives human characteristics to a non-human thing
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personification
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a group of lines in poetry (similar to paragraphs in a essay)
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stanza
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the use of words to create pictures and ideas in the mind of the reader; not meant to be literally true
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figurative language
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The writer's attitude toward the material and/or readers. It may be playful, angry, serious, outraged, tender, happy, depressed, etc.
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tone
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a poem that uses the letters in the topic word to start each verse
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acrostic
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