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19 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Alliteration
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Repeating letters, sounds
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Personification
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adding actions to an object
rain dances, etc |
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Imagery
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Figurative description or illustration
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Simile
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Uses like or as
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Hyperbole
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exaggeration
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Internal Rhyme
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a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse
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Rhyme Scheme
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Patterns of rhymes
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Assonance
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Vowel rhyme
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Stanza
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4 lines
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Homer
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Author of the Oddessey
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Stock epithet
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grey eyed goddess
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Circe
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turns men into pigs
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Scylla
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6 headed monster
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Satire
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poking fun
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fable
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story with animals and a moral
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allegory
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symbolism
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dwindle
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increase
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lucid
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easy to understand
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pensive
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dreamy
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