Sound Devices Flashcards
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Assonance
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Deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.
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Alliteration
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Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
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Onomatopoeia
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Use of words that imitate sounds.
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Rhyme
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Repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
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Rhyme scheme
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Regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
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Rhythm
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Pattern of the beats, or stresses, in spoken or written language.
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Iambic meter
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A foot with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
