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The actual definition of a term, without the connotations
- Lion- a large, carnivorous, feline beast |
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An address to somebody or something not present or tangible
- "Oh Death, where is thy sting?" |
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A series of words that begin with the same letter or syllable
- Sally sold seashells by the sea shore |
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A purposeful exaggeration to make a point about a particular quality of something
- He was as tall as a tree! |
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Giving a human quality to a nonhuman thing
- The sorrowful tree |
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A word that indicates a certain sound
- Buzz |
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A comparison of two objects using like or as
- He was as big as a tree! |
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A rhyme that occurs on the last syllable of every line
- I went to school
And sat on a stool |
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Unrhymed verse with a regular meter
- I went to school
It was boring |
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A division of a poem that has a particular rhyme scheme, meter, etc.
- I went to school
I sat on a stool
It was against the rules
So it wasn't cool |
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A comparison of two things without using like or as
- The enormous man was a mountain of flesh |
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Something that represents something else
- A lion represents courage |
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The opposite of hyperbole; underexaggerating something
- (After the invasion of the Bay of Pigs):
"Well, that didn't work out so well." |
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A 14-line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter
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| -Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? |
| Thou art more lovely and more temperate: |
| Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, |
| And summer's lease hath all too short a date: |
| Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, |
| And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; |
| And every fair from fair sometime declines, |
| By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; |
| But thy eternal summer shall not fade |
| Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; |
| Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, |
| When in eternal lines to time thou growest: |
| So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, |
| So long lives this and this gives life to thee. |
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The person who is speaking
- Me, as I read this example out loud |
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A reference to something from literature, pop culture, history, etc.
- He was more evil than Hitler |
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All of the ideas, things, etc. associated with a word
- lion: brave, fearless, big |
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A rhyme that requires emphasis on certain parts of a word to make it sound like another word; not a true rhyme
- Zoom and zoo |
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A pair of successive lines of a verse that usually rhyme or have the same structure
| -So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, |
| So long lives this and this gives life to thee. |
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The inflection with which a poem is read or the overall mood of a poem
- "He crept down the deserted sidewalk, stepping over the smeared black chalk." This has a mysterious, dark tone to it. |
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Poetry that tells a story
- Ulysses left from Troy
When his son was just a boy.
He braved monsters, gods, and cold
When he got back, his son was old. |
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