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What is assonance?

What is assonance?. Assonance describes the repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning, middle or end of words. FOR EXAMPLE Shoulda Woulda Coulda . Copy the definition into your book and think of your own sentence example. What is an oxymoron?.

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What is assonance?

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  1. What is assonance? Assonance describes the repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning, middle or end of words. FOR EXAMPLE ShouldaWouldaCoulda. Copy the definition into your book and think of your own sentence example.

  2. What is an oxymoron? A combination of words that appear to contradict each other. FOR EXAMPLE Wise Fool Copy the definition into your book and think of your own sentence example.

  3. What is contrast? Words or phrases that are written close together and have strikingly different characteristics. FOR EXAMPLE The rich and the poor live in close proximity to each other. Copy the definition into your book and think of your own sentence example.

  4. Language Features Challenge Noun Personal Pronoun Verb Adjective Adverb Superlative Comparative Alliteration Repetition Emotive Language Rule of three Simile Metaphor Personification In pairs you have 10 minutes to... Correctly write a definition for 3/4 of the language features. 2) Correctly write a definition for all of the language features. 3) And think of an example of each language feature.

  5. SPOT THAT LANGUAGE FEATURE… JULIET Go, get thee hence – for I will not away. Exit FRIAR LAWRENCE What’s here? A cup closed in my true love’s hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. O churl! – drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after? I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison doth yet hang on them To make me die with a restorative. (kissing him) Thy lips are warm Enter PARIS’S PAGE, with the MEN OF THE WATCH. WATCHMEN 1 Lead, boy. Which way? Juliet Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief! - (She snatches ROMEO’S dagger from his belt). O happy dagger! This is thy sheath! (stabbing herself) – There rust and let me die. She falls across ROMEO’S body.

  6. LANGUAGE FEATURES CHALLENGE – You have 5 minutes to copy and label as many examples of language features, in the extract below, as you can. PARIS Stop thy unhallowed toil, vile Montague! Can vengeance be pursued further than death? Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee! Obey, and go with me, for thou must die. ROMEO I must indeed – and therefore came I hither. Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man. Fly hence and leave me. Think upon these gone – Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth, Put not another sin upon my head By urging me to fury. O, be gone! By heaven, I love thee better than myself. Stay not, be gone! Live – and hereafter say A madman’s mercy bid thee run away. PARIS (Drawing his sword) I do defy thy conjurations And apprehend thee for a felon here! ROMEO Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee boy! (They fight)

  7. LANGUAGE FEATURES CHALLENGE – You have 5 minutes to copy and label as many examples of language features, in the extract below, as you can. Fr. Lawrence Who bare my letter then to Romeo? Friar John I could not sent it – here it is again – Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, So fearful were they of infection. Fr. Lawrence Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, The letter was not nice, but full of charge, Of dear import- and neglecting it May do much danger! Friar John, go hence – Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight Unto my cell. Friar John Brother, I’ll go and bring it thee (EXIT). Fr. Lawrence Now, must I to the monument alone. Within this three hours will fair Juliet awake. She will beshrew me much that Romeo Hath had no notice of these accidents. But I will write again to Mantua, And keep her at my cell till Romeo come. Poor living corse, closed in a dead man’s tomb!

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