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13 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
Definition: Words that are close together and have the same starting letter with the sound.
Example: Green gorillas get a gong in Guam. |
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Simile |
Definition: Comparing two words using "like" or "as".
Example: You eat like a pig. |
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Metephore |
Definition: Comparing two words without using "like" or "as".
Example: The snow is a white blanket. |
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Personification |
Definition: Giving non-living things human characteristics.
Example: The wind whispered.
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Idiom |
Definition: A phrase not to be taken literally.
Example: I have my eye on you. |
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Hyperbole |
Definition: An exaggerating phrase.
Example: I jumped right out of my shoes! |
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Onomatopoeia |
Definition: A word used as a sound.
Example: With a pull of a trigger the gun sounded off with a BOOM! |
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Internal Rhyme |
Definition: A word in the middle of a sentence with a rhyming word at the end.
Example: I bought a gong in Hong Kong. |
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Rhyme scheme |
Definition: The pattern of how each line ends in a poem.
Example: I once had a book- A It taught me how to cook- A So I gave it to Ben- B Who lives in a den- B |
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Meter |
Definition: Number of feet within a traditional line.
Example: * Just for a handful of silver he left us- Just for a riband to stick in his coat - Robert Browning's “The Lost Leader”. |
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Capital Letters |
Definition: Show words that stand out and have meaning.
Example: here i lay in the sun Alive |
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Line length |
Definition: Shows of meaning or describes something.
Example: Thou shall sit but not sit Still slow and sient |
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Word Position |
Definition: Different positions show different meaning.
Example: Alive sitting still in a river of joy |
