| 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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