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English
Words meanings
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Juxtaposition? | Placing two words or two ideas together to make the reader feel different about it. “The kings ring glistened as his carriage passed the homeless in their sleeping bags” |
| What is Onomatopoeia? | The use of words that suggest their meaning when pronounced “the bees buzz,the clock tick-ticks,the snake hisses” |
| What is a Oxymoron? | A device where seemingly opposite words are placed together for effect “seriously funny,” “terrible beauty” |
| What is Alliteration? | The repetition of initial sounds in words within a line or verse of poetry “Peter piper” |
| What is assonance? | Repetition of the same vowel sound in a line of poetry. “She lived in the hills,lake water lapping.” |
| What is personification? | When an inanimate object or abstract image is given human qualities or abilities “the leaves danced in the wind,tension gripped my throat.” |
| What is a Stanza/verse? | Poems are divided into stanzas,a group of lines which form a division of a poem. |
| What is imagery? | A picture like your not writing what it is your referring it so the reader will picture in in their head (you could also just say a ‘picture’ I just fucking overexplained) e.g Walking in the door: the wind howled through the keyhole. |
| What is a simile | Comparing something to what it is not in order to describe it using “like” or “as” E.g”he was as excited as a small child at Christmas” |
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