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8 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
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Kennings
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renames a compound word directly
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epithet
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describes a compound word directly
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metaphors
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direct comparison, Ex; is or was in metaphoric statement
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hyperbole
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Truth of something is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect. For example, Through the aperture driver and passenger, not six inches between them but remained for eternity eye to eye
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onomatopoeia
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Where the author tries to imitate character actions with sounds and such as murmur, gurgle, buzz and whisper. Sounds that echo their meaning.
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personification
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giving human traits to something not human for example in Beowulf he says ' The sheperd of evil, guardian of crime" explains that he is a protector of crim and against evil
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similies
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two things unkike that are common. Different than a metaphor where a simile states like or as. use them to intenisfy images , imagination.
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