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What is a metaphor?

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What is a metaphor?

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a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.

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Internal rhyme

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Once upon a midnight dreary while i pondered weak and weary

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Iambic meter

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Most common - 5 stresses with 10 syllables in all

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Feminine

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Not stressed at end

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Rhyme scheme

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Pattern that rhyme follows - aa or ab etc

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native american oral tales

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Examples of characters include, wolves, turtles, owls, sky woman

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what is a synecdoche

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a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team").

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personification

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An example of a human or person being used to represent an object. For example, rambling brat is poetry or writing.

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What is a personification

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the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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masculine

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Stressed at the end

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Meter

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literary conceit

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two things that are compared in a clever way, but are very different

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what is a sattire

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use of humor

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what is an alliteration?

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Same consonants - surprising some, great spirits soar

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Stanza

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Group of verses or thought groups

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What is a satire?

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humor, irony, exaggeration

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Slant rhyme

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Where the syllables match but don't exactly rhyme. I.e. soul and all

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apostrophe

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A figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding. Also known as a turne tale, aversio, and aversion, apostrophes are more often found in poetry than in prose

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what is a simile

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figure of speech comparing one thing with another

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