(Official Baseline) Figurative Language

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What is a stanza in poetry?

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A group of lines.

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Which term refers to the repetition of consonant sounds in nearby words?

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Consonance.

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What is assonance?

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Repetition of vowel sounds.

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What is personification?

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Giving human qualities to non-human things.

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What is hyperbole?

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A big exaggeration.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as.'

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What is a simile?

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

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What is imagery?

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Descriptive language that appeals to the senses.

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What is onomatopoeia?

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A word that imitates the sound it represents.

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a series of words.