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Imagery
descriptive language that can function as a way for the reader to better imagine the world of the piece of literature and also add symbolism to the work
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types of imagery
1. Visual imagery
2. Auditory imagery
3. Olfactory imagery
4. Gustatory imagery
5. Tactile imagery
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Visual imagery
sight
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Auditory imagery
hearing
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Olfactory imagery
smell
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Gustatory imagery
taste
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Tactile imagery
touch
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Persona
from the Latin word “mask of an actor,”
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Persona
fictitious character created by the poet to serve as the “voice” of the poem to represent the thoughts of the writer
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__**Figures of Speech**__
expression that is not meant to be read literally
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__**simile**__
use of a word such as like or as to compare seemingly unlike things
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__**Metaphor**__
Direct Comparison between things
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__Personification__
a type of metaphor that attributes human like characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.
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__Onomatopoeia__
Sounds
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__Hyperbole__
figure of speech in which great exaggeration is used for emphasis or humorous effect
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__Metonymy__
substituting mundane, ordinary objects or expression with words or other phrases to give more poetic effect
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__Oxymoron__
putting together two opposite ideas in one statement.
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Apostrophe
addressing an abstract thing or concept, or some dead or absent person as though it were present or a live.
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__Alliteration__
a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series
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__Assonance__
takes place when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start a different consonant sounds.