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13 Cards in this Set
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Simile |
A part of figurative language, it compares two things using the words "like or as."
Alyssa sounds LIKE a dying duck. |
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Metaphor |
Comparing NOT using like or as.
Lucy's hair was a rat's nest. |
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Personification |
Giving objects human characteristics.
The elephant sung very sweetly. |
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Idiom
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The world creates idioms, they are phrases that do not actually make sense literally.
The icing on the cake. |
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Hyperbole
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A hyperbole is not suppose to be taken literally.
I have so much homework it could take me a million years. |
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alliteration |
Same letter or sound in a repeating occurrence.
Suzy Sushi |
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onomatopoeia |
A word that sounds like it is spelled.
Buzz, buzz the sound the bee makes as it goes by my ear. |
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internal rhyme |
A word rhymes with another word, they must be on the same line.
Once upon a midnight DREARY, while I pondered weak and WEARY. by Edgar Poe |
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rhyme scheme |
It is a pattern of the rhymes, occurs at eh end of the line.
I do not like green eggs and HAM, I do not like them Sam I am. |
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meter
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The pattern of the beats, it is the rhythm of the poem.
A Trochee Meter- The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; By: A. E. Housman’s “Infant Innocence” |
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capital letters |
In poetry the general rules do not apply, by not following the rules it creates a art.
The Sun reflects upon the SEA. |
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line length |
By making the lines different lengths it ends up affecting the sound, rhythm.
Blue, blue, blue everything is BLUE |
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word position |
How words are placed on a page, it helps show the meaning. It shows relationships between words, and makes all poems have a different structure.(can make a shape)
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