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Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Types
Sound Devices 2
Vocabulary
100
A comparison that uses like or as.
What is a simile?
100
The repitition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
An unrhymed poem form of Japanese origin having three lines usually 5, 7, 5 syllables; written about nature.
What is Haiku?
100
The form or pattern of words or music in which accents or beats come at certain fixed intervals.
What is rhythm?
100
A statement that can be proven.
What is fact?
200
A figure of speech in which a nonhuman is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
200
Words that suggest the sounds they name.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
A light humorous poem of 5 lines with a rhyme scheme of aabba.
What is limerick?
200
The repetition of identical or similar final word sounds at the ends of lines of verse.
What is rhyme?
200
Makes a comparison between two or more things that are similar in some ways but otherwise alike.
What is analogy?
300
Writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally.
What is figurative language?
300
Repeating words or phrases.
What is repetition?
300
A song that tells a story (often dealing with adventure or romance) or a poem imitating such a song.
What is ballad?
300
The regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem or stanza.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
A belief that can be supported but not proved to be true.
What is opinion?
400
A figure of speech in which a comparison is made by saying something "is" something.
What is a metaphor?
400
The repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables containging dissimilar consonant sounds.
What is assonance?
400
Poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter.
What is free verse?
400
Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses.
What is imagery?
400
Determining the meaning of words or phrases by using the surrounding words or phrases.
What is context clues?
500
The usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound.
What is pun?
500
The repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables containing dissimilar vowel sounds. i.e., beef, loaf
What is consonance?
500
Two separate answers!!!! Two consecutive lines of verse with end rhymes, and a unit of four lines of verse?
What is a couplet and what is a quatrain?
500
Something that stands for something else.
What is symbol?
500
The emotional associations a word calls to mind and the objective meaning of a word.
What is connotation and what is denotation?