Poetry Terms
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zacharyhays on December 17, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alliteration | repetition of intial consonat sounds in words |
| assonance | repition of vowel sounds followed by similar consonant sounds |
| consonance | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds |
| epanaphora | repetition for emphasis |
| hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement for effect |
| imagery | descriptive language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader |
| onomatopoeia | use of words that imitate sounds |
| oxymoron | figure of speech that combines opposite or contradicary terms |
| personification | type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| simile | figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two unlike ideas |
| synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part represents the whole |
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