Figures of Speech #1 | Figures of Speech #2 | It's all in the ear | I've got rhythm! | Look Who's Talking Now |
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What is a figure of speech?
Way of saying one thing in terms of another
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What is a pun?
A play on words
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What is alliteration?
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds
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What is meter?
The rhythmic pattern of stresses in a poem
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What is persona?
The speaker of a poem
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What is a comparison using like or as?
Simile
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What is hyperbole?
Exaggeration for effect
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What is assonance?
The repetition of vowel sounds
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What is iambic and iambic pentameter?
Unstressed/stressed; the type of meter used in sonnets
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What is dramatic monologue?
A type of poem in which a character addresses a silent audience. Example= "Hazel Tells Laverne."
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What is an extended metaphor?
What is a metaphor developed throughout the entire poem as in ee cummings' "She being brand."
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What is personification?
Giving human characteristics to an inanimate object
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What is consonance?
The repetition of consonant sounds not at the beginning
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What is spondee meter?
Two stresses
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What is jargon and what is dialect?
Two parts: 1. words often associated with a specific trade or profession, 2. words often associated with a specific location or geography
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What is synecdoche?
A type of figure of speech in which the part represents the whole, for example behind bars
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What is something that at first appears to be contradictory but is actually true AND what is a condensed paradox?
Paradox and an oxymoron
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What are words that resemble the sounds they denote? Examples: buzz, bang, pow.
Onomatopoeia
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What is the process of measuring the stresses in a line of poetry?
Scanning a poem or scansion
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What is diction?
What is tone? What is allusion?
Three parts: 1. an author's choice of words, 2. conveys an author's attitude, 3. a reference to something in literature, history, etc.
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What is metonymy?
A type of figure of speech in which something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it. Example="the White House" for the government.
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What is an apostrophe?
An address to someone who is absent or to something inhuman.
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What is euphony?
pleasant sounding
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What is a "foot"?
The metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured
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What is elegy, what is villanelle, and who is Dylan Thomas' father?
Poem written for someone who has died. Example="Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night." Also name the fixed form and for whom it was written.
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