Transcript Alliteration

Alliteration
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is the repetition of initial consonant
sounds.
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ex. She sells seashells by the seashore.
Allusion
is a reference to a well-known person,
place, event, literary, work,or work of
art.
 ex. In Act II of Shakespeare’s Romeo
and Juliet, Mercutio insultingly calls
Tybalt “Prince of Cats” alluding to a cat
named Tybalt in French fables.
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Assonance
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is the repetition of vowel sounds
followed by different consonants in two
or more stressed syllables.
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ex. “weak and weary”
Consonance

Is the repetition of the same or similar
final consonant sounds on accented
syllables or in important words.

ex. singsong, tick tock, click clack
Hyperbole
A deliberate exaggeration or
overstatement
 Hyperboles are often used for comic
effect
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Imagery

is the descriptive or figurative language used
in literature to create words or pictures for the
reader using sight, sound, taste, touch, smell,
or movement.
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ex. From the family tree of old school hip hop
Kick off your shoes and relax your socks
The rhymes will spread just like a pox
Cause the music is live like an electrical shock.”
Irony

is a general term for literary techniques that
portray differences between appearance and
reality or expectation and result.
– Verbal Irony- occurs when someone says one
thing but really means something else.
– Situational Irony- takes place when there is a
discrepancy between what is expected to happen
and what actually happens.
– Dramatic Irony-occurs when a character in the
play or story thinks that one thing is true, but the
audience or reader knows better
Metaphor

is a figure of speech in which one thing
is spoken of as though it were
something else.
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ex. Life is a broken-winged bird.
Meter

is its rhythmical pattern of a poem. This
pattern is determined by the number
and types of stresses, or beats, in each
line
Onomatopoeia

is the use of words that imitate sounds.

ex. thud, sizzle, hiss, and bam.
Personification

is a type of figurative language in which
a nonhuman subject is given human
characteristics.

ex. Leaves dance across the street.
Rhyme

is the repetition of sounds at the ends of
words.

Swans sing before they die-twere no bad thing,
should certain person die before thy sing
Satire

is a type of writing that ridicules the
shortcomings of people or institutions in
an attempt to bring about change
Rhythm

is the pattern of beats, or stresses, in
spoken or written language.

ex. “Once upon a midnight dreary”
Simile

is a figure of speech in which “like” or
“as” is used to make a comparison
between two basically unlike things.

ex. “Clair is as flighty as a sparrow.”
Stanza

is a formal division of lines in a poem.
Symbolism

is anything that stands for or represents
something else. An object that serves
as a symbol has its own meaning, but
also represents abstract ideas.

ex. In James Hurst’s “The Scarlet Ibis,”
the ibis symbolizes the character named
Doodle.
Tone

is the writer’s attitude toward his or her
audience and subject.

The tone can often be described by a
single adjective, such as formal or
informal, serious or playful, bitter or
ironic.
William Wordsworth
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
“ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” Cont.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed---and gazed---but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.