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Literature
9th Grade
05/25/2010

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allusion
Definition
you reference something outside the poem
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denotation
Definition
the dictionary definition of a word
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connotation
Definition
what something brings to mind
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kinesthetic
Definition
imagery of movement
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organic
Definition
inside-the-body imagery
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gustatory
Definition
imagery of taste
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olfactory
Definition
smelling imagery
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tactile
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touching imagery
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similie
Definition
figurative language that uses "like" or "as"
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metaphor
Definition
figurative language that doesn't use like or as ("My brother is a pig")
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personification
Definition
when an object or animal does something human ("The tree shrugged")
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apostrophe
Definition
to address an object directly
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irony
Definition
saying something that means the opposite
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slant rhyme
Definition
not quite rhyming ("rain" and "again")
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alliteration
Definition
repeating a consonant at the BEGINNING of the word ("The tiny toy truck trudged")
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consonance
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repeating consonant sounds through out a sentence, not necessarily at the beginning (All clams named Sam are clammy.)
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assonance
Definition
repeated vowel sounds
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onomatopoeia
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something is called by the sound it makes ("zipper")
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enjambment
Definition
a new line in the middle of a sentence (I walk through/the forest)
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caesura
Definition
using punctuation to indicate a pause ("she paused,/at the doorway")
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