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poetic devices #1

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harsh discordant mixture of sound- clashing music cords cacophony
the reptition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds-fleet flee sweep by sleeping qeeks assonance
the reptition of consonant sounds, but not vowels- lady lounges lazily consonance
a reference to a mythiological situation or character or to another place of literarture allusion
the direct opposite, contrast or opposition between teo things-do not dought the man that he is afraid, be afraid of the man that doesn't daught antithesis
an exclamatory passage in a speech or porm,addresseed to a person, or thing, whose not there-"oh western wind" apostrophe
a mild or vague expression substituteed for one thought to be too harsh direct.-pass away euphemism
an exagerated statement not ment to be taken literally-i'm so hungry, i could eat a cow hyperbole
rhetorical understatement; a emphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something-"tree hugger" for "environmentalist" "grease monkey" for "mechanic" meiosis
a direct comparison without using like or as metaphor
the substituation of a name of something for what it actually means- crown; monarch metonymy
opposite terms appear together-jumbo shrimp oxymoron
false statement that appears to be true-war is peace paradox
giving something not human, a human characteristic-the pen jumped the table personification
using like or as in comparison simile
the humurous of words to suggest a different meaning-did you hear about the guy who got cut in half? hes alright now pun
a form of expression peculiour to language, person, or group of people-i caught a cold idiom
pleasantness of sound of a word ot phrase- harmony euphony
the occerence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words alliteration
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