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13 Cards in this Set
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Simile |
A comparison made with "as", "like", or "than."
Ex. "As blind as a bat." |
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Metaphor |
A comparison that is made directly or less directly, but in any case without pointing out a similarity by using words such as "like", "as", or "than."
Ex. His words were cotton candy. |
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Personification |
A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person.
Ex. The Brave Little Toaster. The characters are household appliances given human abilities. |
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Idiom |
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.
Ex. Out of the blue. |
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Hyperbole |
A figure of speech composed of a striking exaggeration.
Ex. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. |
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Alliteration |
The repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of or words within a phrase or verse line.
Ex. Come and clean your closet. |
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Onomatopoeia |
A figure of speech in which the sound of a word imitates its sense.
Ex. Quack. |
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Internal Rhyme |
A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.
Ex. The cat ate the rat. |
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Rhyme Scheme |
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
Ex. Puff/enough in one verse. |
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Meter |
The rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a verse.
Ex. Christopher Marlowe's "Come live with me and be my love." |
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Capital Letters |
A letter written or printed in a size larger than and often in a form differing from its corresponding letter.
Ex. A. |
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Line Length |
The width consumed by a block of typeset text, measured in inches, picas and points.
Ex. This line has a length. |
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Word Position |
The location of the words.
Ex. This is an example of word position. |
