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13 Cards in this Set
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Simile |
a comparison with 'as', 'like', or 'than'
ex: snug as a bug |
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Metaphor |
A comparison that is made without pointing out the similarity using 'like', 'as', or 'than'
ex:time is money |
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personification |
A figure of speech that describes a thing, an object in a nonhuman form, and a abstract as if it was a person.
ex:its raining cats and dogs |
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idiom |
an expression in music or art
ex: you have a chip on your shoulder |
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hyperbole |
a figure of speech that was composed as a exaggeration
ex:"i have told you like a thousand times now!" |
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alliteration |
the repeating of of consonant sounds and initial stress in words or phrases
ex: Cece's cat clawed the curtains |
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onomatopoeia |
figure of speech that the word imitates a sense
(Ex:'boom', 'pow') |
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internal rhyme |
rhymes in the beginning and at the end of a line, also in the middle of the next line
ex: |
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rhyme scheme |
ordered rhyme pattern's at the end of a line of a poem or the verse
ex: Twinkle Twinkle little star how i wonder what you are |
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meter |
basic rhythm structure of the verse or the lines in the verse
ex: come live|with me |
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capital letters |
type if letter that is bigger that all the other letters
ex: Sponge Bob Squarepants |
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line length |
the placement of accented and unaccented syllables
ex: i didn't fall...........,i just simply attacked the floor |
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word position |
the position of the words in the poem
ex: above, in-front, behind, below, |
