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True or False
Random
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Onomatopoeia
The use of words whose sound suggests the sense.
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Life is a precious possession, death is a loss..
Metaphor
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CINQuain
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True or false: Giving an inanimate object human-like qualities is an example of hyperbole.
False
100
Living dead
Oxymoron
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Personification
The act of endowing inanimate objects or abstract ideas with human-like qualities
200
Betty Botter bought some butter, but, she said, the butter’s bitter; if I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter, but a bit of better butter will make my batter better. So she bought a bit of butter better than her bitter butter, and she put it in her batter and the batter was not bitter. So ’twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.
Alliteration
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Sestina
200
True or False: In free verse, you're limited.
False
200
An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend.
Apostrophe
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Irony
A statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean the opposite of what is written literally.
300
Depending upon its level of intensity, rain may either serve as life-giving or life-destroying. It is revitalizing, fertilizing, and heavenly, and often marks acts of purification.
Symbolism
300
Ballad
No limit
300
True or false: The Albatross from Rime of the Ancient Mariner is often referred to as an allusion.
True
300
Also called vowel rhyme. What is it?
Assonance
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Epic
A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
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Land-sea for a lake House of scholars for a school Mark maker for a pencil/pen
Kenning
400
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Sonnet
400
True or false:Detroit is still hard at work on an SUV that runs on rain forest trees and panda blood; is not an example of metonymy.
False.
400
what is the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience.
denotation
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Anaphora
Using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier
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Through an open gate I chanced to pass by with you . Slipping to the floor I fell to the hands of fate. There I felt at ease for a while as time passed through . The warmth of your smile melted any trace of hate . Rainbow hues ushered in bright light out of the blue. A moment empty of words . What can I relate ? Reflecting now as I look history has past . Things may come and go but we all live within love . I embrace each second where once I first came last. Both the hunter and the prey escaped with the dove. where all things are within our grasp
Terza rima
500
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Rondeau
500
True of False: "I always lie" is a paradox WHY?
TRUE, Because if it true it must be false
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What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O! be some other name: What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." Is an example of ?
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