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a word or an image that signifies something other than what it represents, with multiple meanings and connotations

Symbol

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The use of exaggeration for effect

Hyperbole

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A pause in a line of poetry dictated not by meter but by natural speaking rhythm.

Caesura

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Appealing to one of the five senses

Sensory Imagery

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Raining Cats and Dogs

Idiom

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An expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression.

Idiom

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heart

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shark

Other team loses 20 points!

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shark

Other team loses 10 points!

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thief

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Juxtaposing two opposite words to show an emphatic and dramatic contradiction

Oxymoron

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"The monstrous anger of the guns." - What is this from Anthem For Doomed Youth?

Personification

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heart

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magnet

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rocket

Go to first place!

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baam

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The repetition of identical or similar vowels

Assonance

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monster

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magnet

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rocket

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baam

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A rhetorical figure in which two ideas are directly opposed

Antithesis

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The repetition of final consonant sound or sounds following different vowel sounds in proximate words

Consonance

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"Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them." - This is a more specific form of repetition... what is it?

Anaphora

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Define alliteration

the repetition of a sound at the beginning of a word in a sequence of nearby words

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