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13 Cards in this Set
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Simile |
Definition: a comparison using ''like'', ''as'', ''or''
Example: as busy as a bee |
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Metaphor |
Definition: a comparison not using like, as, or
Example: Time is a thief |
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Personification |
Definition: representing a non-human thing as if it were human.
Example: the leaves waved in the wind |
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Idiom |
Definition: a word or phrase that is not taking literally
Example: it's raining cats and dogs |
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Hyperbole |
Definition: extreme exaggeration used to make a point.
Example: I am so hungry I could eat a horse. |
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Alliteration |
Definition: series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound.
Example: She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore |
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onomatopoeia |
Definition: Words that look like the sound they make or when you read them you almost here them.
Example: slam, splash, bam, babble |
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internal rhyme |
Definition: Two or more rhyming words occur within the same line.
Example: I took the car and it wasn’t far. |
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rhyme scheme |
Definition: pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza.
Example: Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are!' |
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meter |
Definition: unit of rhythm in poetry
Example: lines in between words |
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capital letters |
Definition: can mean a new beginning or a start of the new line
Examples: A,B,C |
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line length |
Definitions: the width occupied by the block of typeset text, measured in inches and points
Example: It is how long the stanzas are
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word position |
Definition: a particular way in which someone or something is placed or arranged
Example: where the words are placed by the poet. |
