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17 Cards in this Set
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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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hyberhole |
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. |
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oxymoron |
big and short |
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limerick |
short poem that rhyms |
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imagery |
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. |
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content |
what the story's about |
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metaphor |
comparing two things |
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onomatopoeia |
noise, sound |
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simile |
like or as |
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repitition |
repeating the same words over and over again |
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personification |
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. |
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rhyme scheme |
the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. |
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syallable |
same sound |
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theme |
the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. |
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assonance |
in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible |
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rhyme |
correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. |
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stanza |
lines of poems that are arranged in groupes |
