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13 Cards in this Set
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Simile |
Definition:A comparison made with “as,” “like,” or “than.”
Example: * Our soldiers are as brave as lions. * Her cheeks are red like a rose. * He is as funny as a monkey. * The water well was as dry as a bone. * He is as cunning as a fox. |
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Metaphor |
Definition:A comparison that is made without pointing out a similarity by using words like “like,” “as,” or “than.”
Example: 1. My brother was boiling mad. (This is saying he was too angry.)2. The assignment was a breeze. (This is saying that the assignment was not difficult.) |
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Personificaton |
Definition:A figure of speech in which the poet describes a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it was a person.
Example:When you say, “The sky weeps” we are giving the sky the ability to cry, which is a human ability. |
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Idiom |
Definition:The term refers to a set expression or a phrase comprising two or more words. An interesting fact regarding the device is that the expression is not interpreted literally. The phrase is understood as to mean something quite.
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Hyperbole |
Definition:
Example: “Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.” The statement quoted above uses “silver lining” as an idiom which means some auspicious moment is lurking behind the cloud or the difficult time. |
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Alliteration |
Definition: The repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line. Alliteration need not reuse all initial consonants; “pizza” and “place” alliterate.
Example: 1.A cat crawls on the carpet. 2.A duck dives in the dump. |
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Onomatopoeia |
Definition:A word that creates a sound effect that describes the thing described, making the description more interesting and a more real life type.
Example: 1. The buzzing bee flew away. 2.The sound of the rustling leaves is beautiful. |
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Internal rhyme |
Definition:A poetic rhyme which can be defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhymes with each other.
Example: 1.While I was napping,I heared a tapping. |
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Rhyme scheme |
Definition: A term in which every other line rhymes in a poem.
Example: 1......keep 2.....see 3.......deep 4.....thee |
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Meter |
Definition:The basic rhythmic structure of a line or in the lines.
Example: 1.cat 2.hat |
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Capital letters |
Definition:Use only the capital letters in the sentences or start to use them.
Example: 1.He.... 2.She... 3.I... |
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Line length |
Definition:A poetic term which a pause comes at the end of a sentence or line.
Example: Bright Star, would I were as stedfast as thou art— (Bright Star by John Keats) |
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Word postion |
Definiiton:Where you position the word in the start of the sentence and when you end it.
Example: 1.I...the end
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