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The same letter at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration
100
A language that uses words that have a different meaning from their literal interpretation that are more impactful.
What is figurative language
100
A rhyme that involves a word in the middle, end, or the middle of the next line.
What is internal rhyme
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A word that imitates the natural sound of something that creates a sound effect for the thing that is being described.
What is onomatopoeia
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To make a comparison, showing similarities between two different things. It is a direct comparison using ‘like’ and ‘as’.
What is simile
200
An expression that brings something to mind without directly stating it.
What is allusion
200
Most basic form of poetry; consists of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is foot
200
A figure of speech
What is metaphor
200
A figure of speech that gives animals and things human attributes, making them act like humans.
What is personification
200
A division of four or more lines that have a fixed length, rhyming scheme or meter. A poem’s paragraph.
What is stanza
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The repetition of of a vowel or sound that near enough to one another for the reader to receive an ‘echo’ effect.
What is assonance
300
Exaggerated statements that are not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole
300
A linguistic pattern that gives poems a rhythmical sound.
What is meter
300
A verse, line, or set that appears at the end of a stanza or where a poem divides into two different sections.
What is refrain
300
Signifying ideas by giving them symbolic meanings other than their literary meaning. Most commonly used by describing one object with another.
What is symbol
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Two rhyming words that are very close together in a line or phrase.
What is close rhyme
400
Visually descriptive or figurative language. (pictures)
What is inagery
400
Certain words that can be used to envoys certain feelings in the reader and creates an atmosphere.
What is mood
400
The repeating of certain words or phrases over and over to make an idea clearer.
What is repetition
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The attitude of the writer about a subject conveyed to the audience through the choice of words or point of view.
What is tone
500
Two lines of verse that are sometimes connected to form a unit by a rhyme, but always form a unit.
What is couplet
500
Unit of meter with two syllables where one syllable is unstressed and the second it stressed.‘aTained’
What is iamb
500
A sound, image, figure, or action that contributes to the theme of the poem and have a significance in the poem.
What is motif
500
The repeating of the same or similar sounds in words over and over, usually at the end of lines in poems.
What is rhyme
500
Another name for stanzas, lines, or other parts of poems.
What is verse
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