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Destefano english 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Similes | a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as |
| Metaphor | a comparison of two unlike nouns but does not use the word like or as. |
| Imagery | a picture the poet creates with words that appeal to the reader's senses; sight, smell, touch, sound, and taste. |
| Onomatopoeia | a word that makes a sound of the action it describes. |
| Personification | comparison that give human qualities to inanimate objects. |
| Alliteration | repetition of initial consonants of words. |
| Idioms | an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that it make up. |
| rhyme scheme | is the pattern of rhymed words at the end of the lines in a stanza or verse of poetry. |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds. |
| Hyperbole | this is a huge exaggeration |
| irony | saying the opposite what is meant |
| internal rhyme | srhyme within a line of a poem. it can rhyme with words with the line,or a word at the end of aline. |
| Couplet | two lines long and the last wordon each line rhymes with each other. they are often silly. |
| quatrain | always four lineslong and the end word follow a rhyming pattern. |
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