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| word choice and grammatical construction |
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speakers have attitudes toward themselves, their subjects, and their audiences, and they (consciously or unconsciously) choose their words accordingly
Examples: playful, angry, confident, sarcastic, etc. |
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| Ridicules an aspect, or aspects of human behavior, used to criticize |
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compares unlike items using explicit comparison words
Examples: like, as, appears, seems |
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...the items are from the same class.
Example: New York is like London., New York is like a meat grinder breaking men down. |
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Metaphor
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makes an implicit comparison of items that are literally uncomparable
Examples: She is a rose., The sun sailed below the horizon. |
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Personification
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| Giving human feelings or characteristics to abstractions, inanimate objects, or animals |
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Hyperbole
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| overstatement; a gross exaggeration |
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| Appeals to one of the five senses, can be literal or figurative, and language a poet/author uses to make one see, touch, smell, hear, or taste language |
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Something that, although it is of interest in its own right, stands for or suggests something more complex. Conventional, or agreed upon symbols include
Examples: rose - love
bird in a cage - feeling trapped
dove - peace
cross - Christianity |
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| stresses (accents or strong parts of words/sentences) at regular intervals |
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| the pattern of stressed syllables |
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__/__/__/__/__/
This meter is often employed by Shakespeare |
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| repetition of an identical or similar stressed sound or sounds |
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Same vowel and final consonant sounds
Examples:
Fix/sticks
Rougher/buffer |
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Only the final sounds are identical
Examples:
soul/oil
trolley/bully |
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Not really a rhyme. It only looks like one
Example:
Cough/bough |
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| repetition of initial sounds |
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Identical vowel sounds in close words
Example:
Tide-mine |
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repetition of consonant sounds
Example:
pitter-batter |
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