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13 Cards in this Set
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Simile |
A comparison made with “as,” “like,” or “than.
Example: Our soldiers are as brave as lions |
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Metaphor |
A comparison that is made directly or less directly, unlike simile it does not use the word as, like, or than.
Example: The snow is a white blanket. |
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Personification |
Figure of speech that describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person.
Example: The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky. |
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Idiom |
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
Example: A chip on your shoulder |
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Hyperbole |
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Example: I’ve told you a million times |
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Alliteration |
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Example: Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August. |
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Onomatopoeia |
A form of sound into words
Example: bloop splash spray sprinkle squirt drip drizzle |
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Internal rhyme
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A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.
Example: Went to town to buy a gown. I took the car and it wasn’t far. |
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Rhyme scheme
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The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
Example: Could not find one |
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Meter |
The number of syllables in each line
Examples: We that had Loved him so, Followed him Honoured him |
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Capital letters
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The form of an alphabetical letter used to begin a sentence or proper noun; an uppercase letter, in contrast to lower case
Examples: ABCD
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Line length
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The length of a line
Examples: 5 word in the sentence |
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Word position
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A postion where the word it
Example: The is the first word in the sentence |
