Hot Diggety Dog | Go Big Daddy! | Omma do this! | Mo Betta | I aint mad atcha! |
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What is rhyme?
This is the sound between words or the endings of words, especially when they are used at the ends of lines of poetry
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What is personification?
Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.
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What is an idiom?
This is an expression that has a meaning that is only known to a particular group of people.
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What is close reading?
This is what we do when we carefully analyze a piece of literature in detail.
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What is an understatement?
This is saying less than what is meant, for effect.
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What is alliteration?
This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Example: "lovely little ladies" |
What is a simile?
A direct comparison of two unlike things.
Example: Your breath is like a rotting corpse. |
What is irony?
When an author says the opposite of what he/she
means for effect |
What is prose?
This is written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
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What is a pun?
A play on words, meant to be funny.
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What is consonance?
This is the repetition of consonant sounds within and at the ends of words (first and last, odds and ends, stroke of luck, sent and went, pitter and patter)
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What is a metaphor?
Direct comparison of two unlike things, not using like
or as |
What is tone?
An author’s attitude toward his/her subject or in other words, the general character or attitude of piece of writing.
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What is allusion?
An indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work
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What is a paradox?
An apparent contradiction, which is nevertheless somehow true.
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What is assonance?
This is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences
proud round cloud or white high night |
What is hyperbole?
An exaggeration or overemphasis for a humorous effect.
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What is diction?
A writer’s choice of words and way of arranging
sentences |
What is connotation?
An idea or feeling that a word conjures in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
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What is allegory?
This is a literary device that in its most general sense is an extended metaphor.
Think: Animal Farm |
What is onomatopoeia?
These are words that imitate sounds.
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What is symbolism?
This is when a word that has meaning in itself yet is used to represent something entirely different.
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What is blank verse?
This is a poem without a rhyme scheme or metrical system.
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What is denotation?
This is the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
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What is imagery?
This is the representation through language of sense experience; language that appeals to the senses - seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, smelling.
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