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Figurative Language• A form of language use in which
writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
• Examples include:– The next 7 slides
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Personification• A figure of speech in which nonhuman things or abstract ideas are given human attributes the sky is crying dead leaves danced in the wind
blind justice
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Simile• A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as.“The pavement was as hot as the sun.Johnny was flopping like a fish on a line.
Her hair was like a tangled mass of seaweed.
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Metaphor• A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, or by substituting a more descriptive word for the more common or usual word that would be expected. The world's a stage He was a lion in battleDrowning in debtYou are my sunshine
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A figure of speech that gives an
inanimate object or abstract
idea human traits and qualities.
Personification
The internet really loves to crash.
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A figure of
speech in
which
statements
are
exaggerat
ed.
I could sleep for a year.
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The repetition of the first
consonant sound in a
phrase.
“Tigers took Title
Today".
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A word or a grouping of words that
imitates the sound it is
describing, suggesting it’s source
object.
Buzz Slurp
Bang
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Stanza• Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem.
• The stanzas of a poem are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme.
• *Similar to a paragraph in an essay.
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MoodThe mood is the feeling or atmosphere of a
piece. Some examples include:A feeling of love. A feeling of doom. A feeling of fear. A feeling of pride. An atmosphere of chaos. An atmosphere of peace.
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ImageryDescriptive words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses.
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He fumed and charged like an angry bull.
He fell down like an old tree falling down in a storm.
He felt like the flowers were waving him a hello.
The eerie silence was shattered by her scream
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RepetitionThe repeating of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas.
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Free VersePoetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Modern and contemporary poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries often employ free verse.
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BalladA narrative poem written in four-line stanzas.
Often takes the form of songs.
Simple rhyme scheme.
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RhymeThe matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. There once was a cat
who was lazy and fat.
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Rhyme Scheme
•A pattern of rhyme in a poem.–AABB–AB–ABB
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CoupletA grouping of two lines that rhyme
• Usually one complete idea.
The silly, funny catStood up to get my hat
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RhythmThe recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.