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18 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
The repetition of one or more initial sounds, at the beginning of words in a series or close by |
Bright black-eyed creature, brushed with brown |
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Assonance |
Repetition of a vowel sound two or more times in a close proximity. |
A token for holding the lonely at bay |
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Consonance |
Repetition of consonant sound two or more times in close proximity. |
And all is seared with trade; bleared smeared with toil |
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Onomatopoeia |
The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning; words that sound like actual sounds. |
Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark innyard |
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Internal Rhyme |
The use of rhyme within a line if poetry, rather than between lines of poetry. |
Double, double, toil and trouble...(all on one line) |
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Repetition |
Words, sounds, devices repeated in close proximity or in a pattern throughout a piece of text. |
Alone, alone, all, all alone,/ Alone on a wide, wide sea! |
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Simile |
A comparison of two unlike objects, using like, as, or than. Careful of "as if"-look for a comparison! |
His words fell softer than snow upon the ground |
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Metaphor |
A direct comparison of two unlike objects; a comparison that is suggested or implied |
All the world's a stage./I am a rock, I am and island |
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Personification |
To give human or personal qualities to inanimate things or ideas. |
The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night |
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Hyperbole |
Gross exaggeration; overstatement for effect |
She waited an eternity for him/He laughed his head off |
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Litotes |
A deliberate understatement for effect (sometimes just called understatement) |
Hitting that telephone pole certainty didn't do your car any good |
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Rhetorical Question |
Asking a question in such a way that the answer, being obvious, is not needed. |
Who is here so base that he would be a slave?/Who doesn't love freedom? |
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Paradox |
A statement that appears self- contradictory, but underlines a basis of truth. |
My only love, sprung from my only hate/Fair is foul and foul is fair |
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Oxymoron |
A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect in a short phrase. |
Open secret/Original copies/Living death |
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Contrast |
Showing differences between two things, like people or ideas; may be literal or metaphorical |
It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness |
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Euphemism |
To express a disagreeable or unpleasant fact in agreeable or less unpleasant language |
Slanted the facts, withheld information, said what you wanted to hear vs. Lied |
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Symbolism |
The use of an object to represent something else usually an abstract idea with a deeper meaning. |
Dove=peace, harmony/Red rose=love, romance |
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Allusion |
A reference in a literary work to a well-known person, place, object, event, or another literary work. |
It was an error of Titanic proportions |
