Figurative Language
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| Metaphor | when two things are compared without using like or as
EX: the branches of the trees where fingernails scratching at my bedroom window
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| Hyperbole | a figure of speech with extreme exaggeration in order to make a point EX: our soup is deeper then the sea
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| Personification | when nonhuman things are given human like attributes and characteristics EX: The snowflakes danced on the ground
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| Simile | an imaginative comparison that uses like or as EX: as cold as ice
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| Imagery | a style of writing that appeals to the readers scenes and paints an image in their head
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| Idiom | a phrase that the individual words that don't communicate a meaning but a whole phrase does EX: It's raining cats and dogs
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| Verbal Irony | when what is said is the opposite of what is implied
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| Dramatic Irony | when the audience knows something that the character doesn't
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| Situational Irony | when the opposite of what you think is going to happen happens
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| Poetry | a genre of literature that expresses ideas, images, or emotions with very few words
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| line | rarely a full sentence but it is usually a phrase
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| Prose | blocks of text arranged in paragraphs
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| Stanza | a group of lines
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| Ballad | a poem set to music
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| Sonnet | discusses a question and an answer in fourteen lines
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| Free Verse | no set rules
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| Rhyme | when endings sound the same
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| End Rhyme | when the end of each line rhymes
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| Alliteration | when words in a line start with the same sound
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| Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhymes within a poem
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| Narrative Poetry | tells a story
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| Lyrical Poetry | expresses personal emotions or thoughts with a musical quality( i.e, rhyme, alliteration, repetition)
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| Voice | the authors writing style or the speaker
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| Speaker | the perspective/person who is telling the story
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| Internal Rhyme | when two or more words rhyme in the same line
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| Onomatopoeia | when words are spelled like the sound it makes
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