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Vivid, descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses
What is imagery?
Similarity of sound between accented syllables
What is rhyme?
Giving something human qualities
What is personification?
"The horse danced gracefully across the field." is an example of what?
What is personification?
The following is an example of what?
The snow was like a blanket covering the ground.
What is a simile?
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as
What is a simile?
Writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language that is chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound and rhythm
What is poetry?
Using a word, phrase, or clause more than once
What is repetition?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
Define this example: The sky was a field of cotton clouds.
What is a metaphor?
Comparing two things by using one kind of object in place of another to suggest the likeness between them
What is a metaphor?
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
Something that represents something else by association
What is a symbol?
Writer’s attitude toward the subject, material, and/or reader
What is tone?
The following is an example of what?
Sally the salamander slithered slowly across the sand.
What is alliteration?
Expression of two or more words that mean something other than the literal meaning of its individual words
What is an idiom?
Type of poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
To explain a piece of literature in your own words
What is interpretation?
Repetition or similarity in sound between vowel sounds
What is assonance?
The following is an example of what?
Today it's raining cats & dogs.
What is an idiom?
A reference to a famous person, event or work of literature
What is an allusion?
An absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding
What is an apostrophe?
To examine a piece of literature carefully
What is analyze?
Repetition or similarity in sound between consonant sounds
What is consonance?
Buzz, hiss, roar, woof, slam, bang...
These are examples of what?
What is an onomatopoeia?