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Vocab #6-7
Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Advice- n | an opinion suggesting a wise or proper course of action |
Assonance – n | repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants (as in stony and holy) used as an alternative to rhyme in verse |
Alliteration – n | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) called also head rhyme, initial rhyme |
Consonance – n | recurrence or repetition of consonants especially at the end of stressed syllables without the similar correspondence of vowels (as in the final sounds of "stroke" and "luck") |
Linger – v | to leave slowly and reluctantly. |
Meter –n | rhythm that continuously repeats a single basic pattern |
Naysayers- n | one who denies, refuses, opposes, or is skeptical or cynical about something. |
Rhyme –n | one of two or more words thus corresponding in sound |
Rhythm – | the repetition in a literary work of phrase, incident, character type, or symbol |
Stealthily – adv. | Doing something quietly and secretly so no one notices. |