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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A word that sounds like the noise it is describing: 'splash', 'bang', 'pop', 'hiss'.
Onomatopoeia
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The use of figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.
Imagery
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Where two words normally not associated are brought together: 'cold heat' 'bitter sweet'.
Oxymoron
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The humorous or sarcastic use of words or ideas, implying the opposite of what they mean.
Irony
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boom
Lose 50 points!
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fairy
Take points!
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shark
Other team loses 10 points!
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baam
Lose 10 points!
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Language that is used in speech with an informal meaning; 'chill', 'out of this world', 'take a rain check'.
Colloquial language
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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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Exaggerating something for literary purposes which is not meant to be taken literally; we gorged on the banquet of beans on toast.
Hyperbole
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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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heart
Other team wins 20 points!
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fairy
Take points!
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rocket
Go to first place!
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banana
Go to last place!
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Attributing a human quality to a thing or idea: the moon calls me to her darkened world.
Personification
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The way that words sound the same at the end of lines in poetry. Poems often have a fixed rhyme-scheme (for example, sonnets have 14 lines with fixed rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG).
Rhyme
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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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The repetition of a word or phrase to achieve a particular effect.