Terms

Question 1

Alliteration:

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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Allusion:

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference

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Assonance:
in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

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Cleché:

a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought

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Consonance:

agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions

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Epic:
a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation

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Figurative language:

language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation

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Free verses:

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

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Hyperbole:

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Imagery:

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

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Onomatopoeia:

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

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Personification:
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

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Repetition:

the action of repeating something that has already been said or written

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Rhyme:
correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry

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Simile:

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

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Speaker:

a person who speaks