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13 Cards in this Set
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Imagery
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Language to create a visual picture, especially those that appeal to the senses.
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Alliteration
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Repetition of inital consonant sounds.
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Personification
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f.o.s. that gives human characteristics to anything non-human or inanimate.
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Simile
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f.o.s. that compares two unlike things by using words such as "like" or "as".
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Metaphor
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f.o.s. that compares two unlike things ---- usually uses "is" or "was".
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Onomatopoeia
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The use of words that imitate sound.
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Allusion
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An indirect reference to a person, event, statement, or theme found in literature, the other arts, history, mythology, religion, or popular culture.
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Assonance
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Repetition of vowel sounds.
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Rhyme
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Repetition of sounds.
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Consonance
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Repetition of middle/end consonant sounds.
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Tone
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Quatrain
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Alternating lines of poetry that rhyme.
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Couplet
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2 consecutive lines of poetry rhyme.
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