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Voice & Literary Terms
Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Sound Devices (extended)
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100
This is created from the writer's or speaker's tone, imagery, diction, and syntax.
What is voice?
100
An extreme exaggeration; usually melodramatic; the exaggeration conveys a passionate feeling and an emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
100
A pattern of sound created with stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
100
example: Little kid in Italy
What is assonance?
100
Poetry that is free from the constraints of structure, form, rhythm, and rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
200
A reference to a well-known concept, person, thing, or event.
What is allusion?
200
A comparison of two unlike things, using the words "like" or "as".
What is simile?
200
A repeated line or multiple lines.
What is refrain?
200
example: send, sand, sound
What is consonance?
200
A word that imitates the sound it represents.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
A universal concept or life lesson/message that can be taken from a text and applied to a greater context.
What is theme?
300
A comparison of two unlike things that CANNOT use the words "like" or "as".
What is metaphor?
300
The repetition of similar vowel sounds occurring at the end of words.
What is regular rhyme?
300
example: big, bad bear
What is alliteration?
300
The cultural and emotional associations with a word. This can be negative or positive.
What is connotation?
400
A literal (real, physical) image that represents something figurative (not real, of the mind).
What is symbol?
400
A metaphor that is lengthened throughout multiple lines of a text.
What is extended metaphor?
400
Rhyme that occurs within a line.
What is internal rhyme?
400
example: This is a long, long trip. A long trip like this requires patience.
What is repetition?
400
A specific emotional perspective toward a subject; the emotion the reader experiences as they read the text (sometimes created by setting or tone).
What is mood?
500
The literal definition of a word; the definition you would find in the Dictionary.
What is denotation?
500
A description that gives human qualities (emotions, actions, etc.) to an inanimate/non-human object.
What is personification?
500
Rhyme that is formed with extra words or with imperfect rhymes (words that almost rhyme).
What is slant rhyme?
500
example: I have a dream... I have a dream...
What is anaphora?
500
A description that appeals to the five senses, creating an image in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?