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15 Cards in this Set
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Line |
a long narrow mark or band |
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stanza |
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem |
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speaker |
a person who speaks |
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figure of speech |
a word or phrase used in a nonliteral sense to add rhetorical force to a spoken or written passage |
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simile |
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind |
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metaphor |
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable |
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extended metaphor |
refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem |
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personification |
a figure intended to represent an abstract quality |
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imagery |
visually descriptive or figurative language |
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alliteration |
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
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consonance |
argument or compatibility between opinions or actions |
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assonance |
the repetition of the sound of a vowel |
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onomatopoeia |
the formation of a word from a sound |
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rhyme |
a word that corresponds to another |
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internal rhyme |
a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line |
