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Term | Definition | Example |
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Alliteration | The repetition of a constant sounds at the beginnings of words, as in feathered friend | Chew,Chow,Chuck |
Rhyme | The repetition of sounds at the end of words | Cartoon, moon |
Rhythm | The patterns of beats, or stress, in spoken or written language | Regular rhythm has spacing repetition |
Imagery | Word pictures or description of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and texture-to appeal your five senses. | The juicy fruit dripped down my chin |
Sensory language | Words or pictures that create an image in your head | Juicy fruit is good |
Diction | Important part of creating effective imagery | The PLUMP JUICY fruit |
Word choice | Important part of creating effective imagery | The PLUMP JUICY fruit |
Visualize | Picture images in their minds | When I hear a story about a bear I think of Alaska |
Symbolism | The use of symbols | my mind is like a four leaf clover |
Simile | Use like or as to compare two different ideas or things | I was as mad like a volcano |
Metaphor | Compare two different ideas or things without using like or as | Nothing could be mad like me not even a volcano |
Personification | Language in witch a nonhuman subject is given human traits | The machine went BURP!! |
Hyperbole | Exaggeration of speech for emphasis or effect | It was 100 feet tall |
Analogy | Comparison that is used to increase understanding | It was just like that time when you fell |
Sound devices | Make up the poem pleasing the ear | The paper crinkled softly in the wind |
Rhyme scheme | A pattern of rhymes in a poem | AABBA |
Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | What the cow What how What is that |
End rhyme | Repeated sounds at the end of the line | What is wrong with you you are turning blue |
Internal rhyme | Repeated sounds within the line | That cat is super fat |
Consonance | The repetition of a constant sounds at the end of words | cat,blat,fat |
Onomatopoeia | The use of words that imitate sounds | Bang,Pow,Kablow |
Repetition | The repeated use of a sound, word or phrase. | The cannon went bang, bang, bang |