Figures and Sounds of Speech
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- The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning; buzz, rustle, boom, ticktock, tweek...
- onomatopoeia
- Writing that uses ordinary language to express ideas.
- Prose
- A literary work that uses consise, colorful, often rhythmic language to express ideas or emotions.
- Poems
- Repitition of consonant sounds in a sentence of verse.
- Alliteration
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A comparision of two things that does not use the words "like" or "as".
"Gray cat winter prowls the farm." - Metaphor
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A comparison of two things that uses "like" or "as".
"The road was as windy as a piece of ribbon candy." - Simile
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A vivid description of things seen, heard, smelled, touched and tasted.
"The golden sunlight flashing." - Imagery
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A comparison between a non human with a human (Giving the non human, human characteristics.)
"The daffodils tossed their heads in an enegetic dance." - Personification
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A repition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words in a sentence or verse.
"Princess Prunella lived in a pink palace." - Alliteration
- A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit; a poetry paragraph.
- Stanza
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Overstating the truth.
"Usher is the best singer in the world." - Exaggeration
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An expression whose meaning cannot be understood by knowing the words that form it.(These expressions should never be taken literally."
"raining cats and dogs." - Idiom
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An extreme exaggeration that writers use for effect.
"From the top of the mountain you can see forever." - Hyperbole
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A repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together.
"The bee will see the tree." - Assonance
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The use of rhyming words within a line of poetry.
"Mary. Mary, quite contrary,..." - Internal rhyme
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Repeating words and phrases.
"So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops fo New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from....
Let freedom ring from..." - Repetition
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The meter or the stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
(every other syllable is stressed.) - Rhythm
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The pattern in which words in with the same sounds.
"I think that I shall never see,
A poem lovely as a tree." - Rhyme