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13 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
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Couplet |
2 line stanza with the same end rhyme |
The Series of Unfortunate Events |
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Personification |
Gives lifelike qualities to something nonhuman |
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Simile |
Uses like or as in a direct comparison |
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Metaphor |
Points on a direct comparison without using like or as |
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Onomatopoeia |
A sound word |
Boom crash buzz hiss |
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Tone |
The writers attitude towards his or her subject |
Author has what letter T |
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Meter |
A unit of Rhythm in poetry the pattern of the beats |
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Allusion |
Reference to a well known person place event literary work art |
Helen of Troy |
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Hyperbole |
Deliberate exaggeration |
I've got a million things to do |
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Imagery |
creates pictures in mind using senses |
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assonance |
Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds |
A sentence ends in a vowel and it's in the middle of the word |
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oxymoron |
2 opposites |
burning ice |
