Poetic devices

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The repetition of constant sounds
Alliteration
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A comparison between two objects using a word such as "like" "as"
Simile
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A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them
Metaphor
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The repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
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The recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Meter
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Figure of speech which endows animals ideas or objects with human traits
Personification
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A word which sounds like it sounds
Onomatopoeia
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The repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
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On either side the river lie, long fields of barley and rye
Assonance
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The words.... long and strong have the following in common
Rhyme
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"This life, this world, this truth" is an example of
Alliteration
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The following is an example of a ________ : "love is like a hawk with velvet claws"
Metaphor
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Card 2

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A comparison between two objects using a word such as "like" "as"

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Simile

Card 3

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A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them

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Card 4

Front

The repetition of vowel sounds

Back

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Card 5

Front

The recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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