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the repetition of an initial consonant sound
What is alliteration
an exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
refers to a situation or event that is the opposite of what is or might be expected.
What is irony?
Refers to the atmosphere or feeling of a literary work.
What is mood?
The attitude or viewpoint that an author shows toward his or her subject.
What is tone?
hints given about what might happen later on
What is foreshadowing?
the use of words that sound like the things they name.
What is onomatopoeia?
the repeating of a word or group of words for effect
What is repetition?
a comparison between unlike objects that does not use like or as.
What is metaphor?
the repetition of vowel sounds with in a line of poetry. (Rain, rain, go away!)
What is assonance?
a comparison using like or as.
What is simile?
combination of two contradictory words.
What is oxymoron?
the representation of ideas or things by symbols
What is symbolism?
writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally. Common figures of speech include hyperbole, metaphor, personification, and simile.
What is figurative language?
poets use rhyme to lend a song like quality to their verses and to emphasize certain words and ideas. End rhyme, internal rhyme and rhyme scheme are examples of this.
What is rhyme?
a figure of speech that applies human qualities to objects, ideas, or animals.
What is personification?
the use of description of figurative language to create vivid images, or word pictures. These images may appeal to the sense of sight or to any of the other senses
What is imagery?
a comparison between unlike objects that does not use like or as
What is a metaphor?
refers to the creation and development of characters, the people who carry on the action in a literary work
What is characterization?
A reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature that the author expects the reader to know.
What is allusion?
any pattern of rhymes in a stanza which is a conventional pattern or which is repeated in another stanza. Lower case letters are assigned to the end rhyme of each line of poetry to describe the pattern. The rhyme scheme of a stanza of poetry to could be ababcb.
What is rhyme scheme?
a series of stressed and unstressed syllables arranged s that the reader expects a similar series to follow. For example "I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I Am".
What is rhythm?
a lyric poem which has fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter- one rhyme scheme is abab cecd efef gg.
What is sonnet?
the smallest division of a poem having a pattern of rhyming lines which is repeated in another stanza.
What is stanza?
poetry written with a rhythm and other poetic devices, but without meter or a regular rhyme scheme. Its rhythm sounds more like the natural rhythms of normal conversation. Every line of a free verse poem may have a different pattern of beats.
What is free verse?