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English 2 Final

Poetry

TermDefinition
Alliteration the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Onomatopoeia the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ).
Tone the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.
Mood a temporary state of mind or feeling.
Allusion an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
Metaphor a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Simile a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).
Symbol a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.
Personification the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Hyperbole exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Theme the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
Pun a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
Imagery visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
Oxymoron a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).
Idiom a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).
Rhyme correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
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