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Elements of Literature Vocabulary #1

Elements of Literature Vocabulary #1. English II Honors. Consonance - Repetition of internal or ending consonant sounds of words close together in poetry. . Example: “I dropped the locket in the thick mud.”. Rhyme - a word which is like another in its final sound(s). Example - .

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Elements of Literature Vocabulary #1

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  1. Elements of Literature Vocabulary #1 English II Honors

  2. Consonance - Repetition of internal or ending consonant sounds of words close together in poetry. • Example: “I dropped the locket in the thick mud.”

  3. Rhyme - a word which is like another in its final sound(s) • Example -

  4. Connotation – the implied or associative meaning of a word • All of the following refer to “a young person,” but their connotations are different. • Child • Kid • Little One • Brat • Juvenile

  5. Denotation – the literal meaning of a word

  6. Hyperbole – intentional exaggeration to create an effect • “I’m dead tired!” • “The fish was huge!”

  7. Figurative Language – Language employing one or more figures of speech (simile, metaphor, etc.) Growing Profits Home Computer

  8. Metaphor – A direct comparison of two different things • “The sun was a red ball in the sky.”

  9. Voice -the author's style, the quality that makes his or her writing unique, and which conveys the author's attitude, personality, and character • You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.You really are a heel.You're as cuddly as a cactus,You're as charming as an eel.Mr. Grinch.You're a bad bananaWith a greasy black peel.You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.Your heart's an empty hole.Your brain is full of spiders,You've got garlic in your soul.Mr. Grinch.I wouldn't touch you, with athirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole.

  10. Paraphrase – a restatement of a text in a different form or different words, often for the purpose of clarity

  11. Meter -a recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in lines of poetry • The unstressed syllables are in blue and the stressed syllables in red. • ShallIcomPAREtheeTOaSUMmer’sDAY?

  12. Alliteration – the repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words • Tyger, tyger burning bright, In the forest of the night;What immortal hand or eyeCould name thy fearful symmetry? • In what distant deeps or skiesBurnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand dare seize the fire? Excerpt by William Blake

  13. Allusion – A reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize • "Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities". • "Like the prodigal son, he returned to his home town and was welcomed by all who knew him".

  14. Imagery – the use of figures of speech to create vivid images that appeal to one of the senses

  15. Onomatopoeia – A word formed from the imitation of natural sounds The BellsHear the sledges with the bells-Silver bells!What a world of merriment their melody foretells!How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,In the icy air of night!While the stars that oversprinkleAll the heavens, seem to twinkleWith a crystalline delight;Keeping time, time, time,In a sort of Runic rhyme,To the tintinnabulation that so musically wellsFrom the bells, bells, bells, bells,Bells, bells, bells-From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. • Excerpt by Edgar Allan Poe

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