Definitions
The implied meaning of a word.
What is CONNOTATION
Making an appeal to someone's emotions.
What is PATHOS
RHYME:
He passed through life,
in search of you.
Then you passed right by,
but he never even knew.
What is END RHYME?
The author's feelings about what he/she is writing about.
To change the basic word order by moving the subject around.
What is INVERSION
A brief short story to serve as an example.
RHYME:
The moon shone bright as they walked that cold night,
yet no one heard her scream.
What is INTERNAL rhyme
The avalanche devoured anything in its path.
What is PERSONIFICATION
Characteristics of the text; the title, setting, and narration.
What is AUTHOR'S CHOICE
Replacing harsh, offensive language with milder words.
SOUND DEVICE:
We sit and wear out the stay whether he comes or goes.
What is ALLITERATION
How wonderful the weather is today!
What is INVERSION
The repetition of vowels in non-rhyming words.
What is ASSONANCE
Beginning several lines with the same word or phrases.
What is ANAPHORA
SOUND DEVICE:
The search over earth was never the journey they hoped it would be.
What is ASSONANCE
To shift suddenly and address a specific person or group.
What is APOSTROPHE
When the final consonants in non-rhyming words sound the same.
What is CONSONANCE
A short, well-known, wise saying.
SOUND DEVICE:
Your blank expression as you think perplexed her.
WHAT IS CONSONANCE
To use humor and sarcasm to inspire a change in a current situation.
What is SATIRE.