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Unit 2 test review
Bob Jones Elements of Literature unit 2 test review
Term | Definition |
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lines or parts of lines showing a similarity of sound from the vowel of the last accented syllable onward | rhyme |
repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds | alliteration |
the repetition of terminal (ending) consonant sounds | consonance |
the use of words that sound like what they mean | onomatopoeia |
Giving inhuman objects human qualities or characteristics | personification |
man vs. man; man vs. nature; man vs. God man vs. himself | conflict |
the arrangement of accented syllables that occur at fairly equal intervals | meter |
units of meter are called | poetic feet |
poetry that uses neither meter nor rhyme | free verse |
when words have similar internal vowel sounds, such as scud, thump, and run | assonance |
comparison of two unlike things | metaphor |
the use of highly descriptive words and imaginative comparisons in lines and stanzas | poetry |
writing that is in sentences and paragraphs | prose |
synecdoche | part of a thing that stands for a whole |
metonymy | a related thing stands for the thing itself |
simile | using like or as to compare two similar things |