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Flashcards by Isabelle Robertson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Isabelle Robertson
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| 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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