Definitions Flashcards

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Metaphor

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Comparison without like or as

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Alliteration

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Repetition of beginning sounds of words

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3
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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds

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4
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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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5
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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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6
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Irony

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Use of words to express opposite meaning

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7
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Diction

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Choice and use of words

Rude bs polite

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8
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Imagery

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Language appeals to 5 senses

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9
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Meter

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Rhyming pattern

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10
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Rhyme

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Word ends with sound that compares to another

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11
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Repetition

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Author repeats the same words in a story

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12
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Syntax

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The structure of words, lines stanza and punctuation

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13
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Onomatopoeia

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Word from a sound

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14
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Personification

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Giving human qualities to something that is not “the flowers danced”

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15
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Idiom

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Expression of 2 or more words “silver lining”

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Analogy

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Point by point comparison of two unlike things

17
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Literal

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Not an exaggeration

18
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Figurative

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Opposite of literal

19
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Denotation

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Dictionary definition of a word

20
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Connotation

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Emotional feeling associated with word

21
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TP CASTT

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Title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude, shift, title, theme

22
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The road not taken

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Robert Frost

23
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I know why the caged bird sings

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Maya Angelou

24
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The greasers

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Gloria Anzaldua

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Do not go gentle into the dark night
Dylan Thomas
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The man in the glass
Dale Wimbrow
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Annabelle Lee
Edgar Allan Poe
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Simile
Comparison using like or as