The repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines to create a sonic effect.
Anaphora
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A word that sounds like the noise it is describing: 'splash', 'bang', 'pop', 'hiss'.
Onomatopoeia
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The underlying message or 'big idea.' In other words, what critical belief about life is the author trying to convey in the writing of a novel, play, short story or poem?
Theme
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The repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line.
Alliteration
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The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.
Symbolism
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A word or phrase used to imply figurative, not literal or 'actual', resemblance; he flew into the room.
Metaphor
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The same vowel sound is repeated but the consonants are different; he passed her a sharp, dark glance, shot a cool, foolish look across the room.
Assonance
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baam
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gold
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shark
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banana
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The atmosphere or feeling that pervades the text, such as sadness, gloom, celebration, joy, anxiety, dissatisfaction, regret or anger.
Tone
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A repetitive beat or metre within a poem.
Rhythm
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thief
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seesaw
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shark
Other team loses 15 points!
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baam
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boom
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gold
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rocket
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banana
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Contrast is a rhetorical device through which writers identify differences between two subjects, places, persons, things or ideas. Simply, it is a type of opposition between two objects highlighted to emphasize their differences.
Contrast
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A phrase which establishes similarity between two things to emphasise the point being made. This usually involves the words 'like' or 'as'
Simile
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A question asked just for effect or to lay emphasis on some point discussed when no real answer is expected.