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Alliteration

Alliteration. Allusion. Connotation. Imagery. Irony. Metaphor. Personification. Simile. Symbol. The repetition of initial consonant sounds . A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.

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Alliteration

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  1. Alliteration

  2. Allusion

  3. Connotation

  4. Imagery

  5. Irony

  6. Metaphor

  7. Personification

  8. Simile

  9. Symbol

  10. The repetition of initial consonant sounds

  11. A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

  12. The set of ideas associated with a word, in addition to its explicit meaning

  13. The description of figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader. These pictures, or images, are created by details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement.

  14. Portrays differences between appearances and reality, or expectation and result

  15. A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. Implies a comparison between two things.

  16. Figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

  17. Figure of speech in which the words like or as are used to compare two apparently dissimilar items

  18. Anything that stands for something else. In addition to having its own meaning and reality, a symbol also represents abstract ideas

  19. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary” “The Raven”

  20. In “The Gift of the Magi,” the title and details of the story refer to the biblical account of the Magi, wise men who brought gifts to the baby Jesus.

  21. The word “home” brings to mind security, family, and comfort.

  22. The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o’clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. From “Preludes,” by T.S. Eliot

  23. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. From “Rhime of the Ancient Mariner,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  24. . . . if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. From “Dreams,” by Langston Hughes

  25. “Tossing their heads in sprightly dance” “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud,” by William Wordsworth

  26. Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Langston Hughes describes a “Dream Deferred”

  27. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. From “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost

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