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Repeated vowel sounds. “The mad man stabbed the black adder.” |
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Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words. “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.” |
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Words whose sound suggests its meaning. “The bees buzzed.” |
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Creating pictures for the senses (through, e.g., similes or metaphors) “Fear was his constant companion.” |
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A comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as.’ “She floated in like a cloud.” |
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A comparison of two things that are similar. “The book was a passport to adventure.” |
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An extravagant exaggeration. “My backpack weighs a ton!” |
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Giving human qualities to ideas and things. “Her stomach growled.” |
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An expression that has a meaning apart from the meanings of its individual words. “He’s lost his mind!” |
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Repeated agreement of a consonant sound anywhere within a word. "Tony felt the test totally took him too long to complete." |
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Putting two contradictory words together. "He was a wise fool" "She was joyously sad" |
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When an author makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, fairy story, or work of art, either directly or by suggestion. They are used to link concepts that the reader already has knowledge of. |
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A broad idea, moral, or message, of an essay, paragraph, movie, or a book. The message may be about life, society, or human nature. Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas and may be implied rather than stated explicitly |
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The pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme. It is the pattern of end rhymes or lines. It gives the format of the rhyme; a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem (the end words). |
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