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15 Cards in this Set
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End Rhyme
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a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of lines.
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Example- “Roses are red/ Violets are blue/ I love English class/ And you should too!”
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Imagry
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or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses.
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Example-“The coming musk-rose/ full of dewy wine/ the murmurs haunt of/ flies on summer eyes.
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Anaphora
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a device in which each line or sentence begins with the same word or phrase.
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Example- “Mad world! / Mad kings! / Mad composition!”
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Polysyndeton
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the use of a conjunction between each word, phrase or idea.
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Example- “(he) pursues his way/ and swims, or sinks/ or wades, or creeps/ or flies” –John Milton
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Antithesis
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makes use of contrast in language to bring out a contrast in ideas.
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Example- “that’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” –Neil Armstrong
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Slant Rhyme
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partial or imperfect rhyme often using assonance of consonance only
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Example- “Hope is the thing with feathers/ that perches in the soul/ and swings the tune without words/ and never stops at all.” –Emily Dickinson
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Free Verse
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form of poetry which avoids meter patterns, rhythm, and/or rhyme.
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Example- “I celebrate myself, and sing myself/ And what I assume you shall assume/ For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” –Walt Whitman
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Assonance
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repetition of accented vowel sounds in a series of words.
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Example- “What large, dark/ hands are those at the window.”
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Hyperbole
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an extreme exaggeration
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Example- “All of the perfumes of Arabia/ Will not sweeten this little hand.”
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Onomatopoeia
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words that mimic the sound that they describe.
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Example- “A thin whine of wires/ a rattling and flapping of leaves.”
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Apostrophe
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a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality.
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Example- “I said to Love, ‘It is not now as on old day/ When men adored the and thy ways.’”
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Simile
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a comparison of two different things using “like” or “as”.
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Example- “O My Luve’s like a red, red rose.”
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Metaphor
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comparison of two different things not using “like” or “as”.
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Example- “That child is a mouse.” Or “I plowed right through that book.”
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Alliteration
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practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same consonant sound.
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Example- “The bird’s fire-fanged feathers dangle down.”
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Personification
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type of figurative language in which a non human subject is given human characteristics.
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Example- “The window winked at me.”
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