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Literary Terms/ Figurative Language
Alliteration – the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words.
Ex: To make a man to meet the mortal need A man to match the mountains
Assonancethe repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds
Ex: The fleet sweep by the sleeping geese
Literary Terms/ Figurative Language
Chiasmus• type of rhetoric in which the second part
is syntactically balanced against the first. – "There's a bridge to cross the great divide. . .
. • There's a cross to bridge the great divide. . . ."
– Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike. Imagery
language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.
Literary Terms/ Figurative Language
Metaphor– comparison of two unlike things using the
verb "to be" and not using like or as in a simile.
– Example:He is a pig. Thou art sunshine.
SimileA comparison using like or as
Her smile is like the sun
Types of Rhyme
• Internal Rhyme – rhyming within a line.
• Example:I awoke to black flak.
• Rhyme Scheme – rhymed words at the ends of lines. – Example:
Roses are red AViolents are blue BSugar is sweet CAnd so are you. B
Sonnet #12 ExplainedWhen I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;When I behold the violet past prime,And sable curls, all silvered o'er with white;When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,And summer's green all girded up in sheaves,Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,Then of thy beauty do I question make,That thou among the wastes of time must go,Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsakeAnd die as fast as they see others grow;And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defenceSave breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Rhyme Scheme
O
C
T
A
V
E
S
E
S
T
E
T Couplet