The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. Example: pensive poets, nattering nabobs of negativism.
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Alliteration
Alliteration The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
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argument
argument A statement of the meaning or main point of a literary work
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personification
What is personification attributing human qualities to something non-human, 2. acting as an example of
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Tone
What is Tone attuide towards the subject or towards the audience implied by the reading. Often done by the author
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Apostrophe
Speaker in a poem addresses a person not present or an animal, inanimate object, or concept as though it is a person. Example: Wordsworth--"Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour / England has need of thee"
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Assonance
Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
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to persuade
What is to persuade Author's purpose in which the writer wants to influence or convince the reader about something.
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allusion
What is allusion A reference to another work of literature, person, or event
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Mood
What is Mood Often done by the reader. feelings a reader gets when they read a book.
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Hyperbole
overstatement) and litotes (understatement): Hyperbole is exaggeration for effect; litotes is understatement for effect, often used for irony.
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Hyperbole
Hyperbole An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
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to inform
What is to inform Author's purpose in which the writer creates literature in order to inform readers.
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dialogue
What is dialogue Communication between two or more people
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Theme main theme
What is Theme Main idea or a recurrent idea: The message the author is trying to get to a reader
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Couplet
Couplet: two successive rhyming lines. Couplets end the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet.
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Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
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to express
What is to express Author's purpose in which the writer expresses what they think or feel.
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imagery
What is imagery Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)
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Example Of Tone
What is Example Of Tone Id rather stay here then go into that dark room.
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Simile
A direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses "like" or "as" to state the terms of the comparison.
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Apostrophe
Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.
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to entertain
What is to entertain Author's purpose in which the writer tries to use a story line that makes readers want to keep reading.
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metaphor
What is metaphor figure of speech comparing two different things
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Example Of Mood
What is Example Of Mood His voice became shakey when he read aloud about the child`s horriable past.