6680343441 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified. ex) "the press" | 0 | |
6680349955 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which part stands for a whole or whole for a part. ex) "wheels" | 1 | |
6680357634 | paronomasia | a big word for puns | 2 | |
6680359141 | synesthesia | presentation of one sense experience in terms usually associated with another sensation. ex) "for me, pain will always taste like oranges" | 3 | |
6680367914 | litote | deliberate understatement with double negatives. ex) not unloved | 4 | |
6680373202 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 5 | |
6680376495 | consonance | repetition of consonants within words or at the end of words | 6 | |
6680378647 | euphony | words containing consonants that permit an easy and smooth flow of spoken sound | 7 | |
6680381707 | cacophony | percussive and choppy sounds, harsh and noisy pronunciation | 8 | |
6680383769 | masculine rhyme | rhyming of two words with one syllable, ex) coat/float | 9 | |
6680388968 | feminine rhyme | involve two or more syllables rhyming, ex) turtle/fertile | 10 | |
6680394857 | internal rhyme | when an individual line of poetry has two or more words that rhyme | 11 | |
6680397105 | slant rhyme | close but not perfect rhymes, ex) summer/somewhere | 12 | |
6680399688 | meter | the number of feet within a poem | 13 | |
6680402137 | poetic foot | the unit used to measure verse | 14 | |
6680404812 | scansion | the process of determining the meter of a poem | 15 | |
6680408411 | caesura | pauses within a line of poetry, usually with a period, dash, or semi-colon | 16 | |
6680411470 | enjambment | a line that carries over to another without a pause | 17 |
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