Repetition Types
The action of repeating something that has already been said or written
What is repetition?
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ).
What is onomatopoeia?
What is onomatopoeia?
An exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
What are Mansfelds colors?
Navy blue and white
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
What is anaphora?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
She sells seashells by the seashore
What is alliteration?
It compares two things using the words "like or as"
What is simile?
Who is Mansfeld's mascot?
Blue the bulldog
What is epistrophe?
A stylistic literary device identified by the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different
What is consonance?
The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plains.
What is assonance?
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is metaphor?
What are the three Bs?
Be safe, be smart, belong
One fish
Two fish
Red fish
Blue fish This is an example of?
What is epistrophe?
The repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
And the silken uncertain rustling of each purple curtain. The "s" sound is an example of...
What is consonance?
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is allusion?
What is this year's theme?
Survivor
Little Lamb I'll tell thee
Little Lamb I'll tell thee
This is an example of...
What is repetition?
Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
What is rhyme?
phony
bologna
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What is rhyme?
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is irony?
Where is Mrs. Rodríguez Román from?
Puerto Rico