English Flashcards
Identical or very similar returning final sounds in words
Rhyme
The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of two or more adjacent words
Alliteration
Regular patterns that emphasize sound
Rhythm
The basic rhythmic structure inverse made up of stressed and unstressed syllables
Meter
A rhyme with in the same line of verse
Internal rhyme
The use of words that sound like what they mean
Onomatopoeia
The pattern of rhyming lines
Rhyme scheme
The repetition of internal or Ending consonant sounds close together
Consonance
The repetition of Vowel sounds in words close together
Assonance
I repeating meter that enriches or emphasizes words phrases lines and even whole versus or poems
Repetition
And intentionally exaggerated figure of speech
Hyperbole
A subtle compare scene in which the author describes a person or thing using words that are not meant to be taken literally
Metaphor
A metaphor in which the comparison is carried through several lines or even the entire literacy work
Extended metaphors
Figurative language in which nonhuman things were abstractions are represented as having human quality
Personification
Comparison of two things that are centrally different usually using the words like or as
Simile