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Collection Two. Ammanda Kauppinen . Literary Terms . Alliteration- the repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together . Rhyme-the repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables
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Collection Two Ammanda Kauppinen
Literary Terms • Alliteration- the repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. • Rhyme-the repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables • Onomatopoeia- the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning
Literary Terms cont. • Rhythm- the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in a language. • Assonance-the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words close together.
Figure of Speech • Definition-a word or phase that describes one thing in terms of something else and that is not meant to be taken literally. In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self Reliance Emerson compare a the world to a commerce in which the shareholders are held personally responsible. “Society is a joint-stock company”
Metaphor • A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such words of comparison as like, as, than, resembles. • Herman Melville
Consonance • The repetition of the same of similar final consonant sounds on assented syllables or in important word’s.
Symbolism • definition- literary movement that originated in late-nineteenth-century France, in which writers rearranged the world of appearances in order to reveal a more truthful version. • The title of the story says Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most important symbol in the story The Minister’s Black Veil is a “horrible black veil” or a “dismal shade” that separate the wearers from the rest of the world.
Meter • Meter- a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. “Along the sea-sands damp and brown” is a meter . Which was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the poem “The Tide Rises, The Tide falls”
Beliefs of the authors Edgar Allen Poe I think to believe that his belief was not immortality it was more mortality. My opinion based up on how he wrote about dying and living. His poetry was very not just any ordinary poetry, I think his poems where very interesting.
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