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Comparing using like or as |
Simile |
Her bun was as big as a watermelon |
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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |
alliteration |
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? |
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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable |
Metaphor |
Opposite of simile |
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A line of a poem is one row of text |
Line of a poem |
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a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. |
Stanza |
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the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form |
per·son·i·fi·ca·tion |
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the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song |
Rhyming scheme |
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a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words |
Idiom |
e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light |
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the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named |
Onomatopoeia |
cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom |
