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The repetition of sounds at the end of words
Repetition
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How many lines in a sonnet?
14
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Raining Cats and Dogs
Idiom
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The repetition of final consonant sound or sounds following different vowel sounds in proximate words
Consonance
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The use of pleasant sounding words OR The use of words to evoke a pleasant image
Euphony
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5 lines, 7 lines, 5 lines
Haiku
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"Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them." - This is a more specific form of repetition... what is it?
Anaphora
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The trees whistled as the wind blew from the south
Personification
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A poem that spells out a word
Acrostic
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a passing reference to a literary or historical person, place, or event, or to another literary work
Allusion
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It’s not cold on this 40 degree day.
Understatement
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A concise, pointed, epigrammatic statement that reveals a truth or principle.
Aphorism
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It was a bittersweet moment.
Antithesis
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An implied comparison between things essentially unlike
Metaphor
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The repetition of identical or similar vowels
Assonance
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The use of exaggeration for effect
Hyperbole
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"The monstrous anger of the guns." - What is this from Anthem For Doomed Youth?
Personification
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"Volleyed and thundered." - What technique?
Onomatopoeia
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Moo, purr, quack, buzz, hiss, sizzle
Onomatopoeia
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A rhetorical figure in which two ideas are directly opposed
Antithesis
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"Jaws of death" - What technique?
Personification / Metaphor
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An expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression.
Idiom
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Juxtaposing two opposite words to show an emphatic and dramatic contradiction
Oxymoron
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Define alliteration
the repetition of a sound at the beginning of a word in a sequence of nearby words
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A pause in a line of poetry dictated not by meter but by natural speaking rhythm.
Caesura
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Appealing to one of the five senses
Sensory Imagery
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a word or an image that signifies something other than what it represents, with multiple meanings and connotations
Symbol
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What is this: Sad Slow Snail
Alliteration
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