EOC SOL Reading Review

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What is rhyme?

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Rhyme is the repetition of sounds (vowel or vowel and consonant) at the ends of words.

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What does connotation mean?

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Connotation refers to the feelings associated with a word or phrase.

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What is hyperbole?

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Hyperbole is a deliberate, often extreme exaggeration, usually for comic effect.

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What is personification?

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Personification is a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract concepts.

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What does understatement refer to?

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Understatement refers to a statement that is smaller or less intense, or less important than it really is.

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What is assonance?

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Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words.

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What is consonance?

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Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in close proximity within a sentence or phrase.

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What is a metaphor?

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is a simile?

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A simile is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is an apostrophe in literature?

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An apostrophe is a figure of speech in which a speaker addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing.