Here are some more definitons of terms:
- assonance occurs when vowel sounds are repeated
- consonance features repetitive consonant sounds throughout, usually in the middle or end of words.
- Alliteration = repetition of the first consonant: Laresa likes ladders and other things.
- Onomatopoeia = sound words, ex: bam! Crash! Thud! Pow!
- Simile = comparison of 2 things using “as” or “like
- Metaphor = comparison of 2 things NOT using “as” or “like”
- Personification = giving human characteristics to non-human things – Ex: The ocean danced in the moonlight. Another ex: The words appeared to leap off of the paper as she read the story.
- Paradox = opposing things; opposites put together. Ex: The older you get, the younger you look.
- Hyperbole = obvious exaggeration; ex: I texted you 1,000 times last night!
- Illusion = something seems real but isn’t real
- Allusion = a reference to something
- Myth = a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation., especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods.
- Epic = noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style.
- Media res = In the middle of the action. Epics often begin in medias res.
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