English Homework

4. The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables
6. A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form, as in Hunger sat shivering on the road or Flowers danced about the lawn.
7. The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds
8. the underlying main idea of a literary work
10. A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold.
12. The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
13. the authors attitude towards the subject
14. pattern of rhyme among lines of poetry
17. an implied comparison between dissimalar objects
18. A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.
19. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

1. language that represents one thing in terms of soething dissimilar
2. one thing used to represent something else
3. One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines.
5. voice in a poem the person or thing that is speaking
9. language that appeals to the five senses
11. the vantage point or pespective from which which a litereacy work is told
15. standardized coventional ideas about characters plots or setting
16. A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, as in "How like the winter hath my absence been" or "So are you to my thoughts as food to life"