Unit 2: American Renaissance Vocabulary

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Nonconformist a person whose behavior or views do not comply with prevailing ideas or practices
Exact rhyme two words with identical sounds in their final syllable
Slant rhyme two words with similar, but not identical final sounds
Free verse poetry without regular rhyme or meter (Whitman was the first American poet to use it)
Catalog long list used in literature
Anaphora the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition
Alliteration the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Allusion a brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement
Apostrophe a figure of speech in which the poet addresses on absent person, an abstract idea, or thing
Assonance repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences
Consonance the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in a succession
Synecdoche deliberate confusion of scale
Symbolism signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense
Simile draws resemblance with the help of the words “like” or “as”
Personification figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes
Parallelism elements in sentences that are grammatically similar or identical in structure, sound, meaning, or meter
Paradox contrary to expectations, existing belief or perceived opinion
Oxymoron figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect
Onomatopoeia the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent
Metaphor the comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as
Imagery spark off the senses
Hyperbole use of over-exaggeration for the purpose of creating emphasis or being humorous, but it is not intended to be taken literally
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