Unit 6: Lesson 4

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 8, Unit 6, Lesson 4.
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  1. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  2. device
    something in an artistic work designed to achieve an effect
  3. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  4. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  5. voice
    something suggestive of speech as a medium of expression
  6. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  7. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  8. consonance
    the repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words
  9. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  10. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  11. figurative
    not literal
  12. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  13. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
Created on Fri Sep 11 12:00:21 EDT 2020 (updated Mon Sep 14 13:02:08 EDT 2020)

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