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ENGL 1011 - Literature and Composition
II TRU Exam Study Guide
Metaphor - Answer✔️✔️-A comparison without using like or as
Alliteration - Answer✔️✔️-the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the
beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
stressed syllable within a word
ex. In a Sómer Séson, when Sóft was the Sónne
ex. When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent THought
I Summon up remembrance of THings past
I Sigh the lack of many THing I Sought
And With old Woes new Wail my dear time's Waste
Similie - Answer✔️✔️-a comparison between two unlike things using like or
as
Assonance - Answer✔️✔️-Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more
words in close proximity
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Consonance - Answer✔️✔️-Repetition of a consonant sound within two or
more words in close proximity.
Satire - Answer✔️✔️-A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and
ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.
Hyperbole - Answer✔️✔️-exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be
taken literally.
Rhyme - Answer✔️✔️-Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds
following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rythym - Answer✔️✔️-A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or
sound.
Imagery - Answer✔️✔️-Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound,
smell, touch, taste)
Imagism - Answer✔️✔️-a movement in early 20th-century English and
American poetry that sought clarity of expression through the use of
precise images
Iambic - Answer✔️✔️-unstressed, stressed
Anapestic - Answer✔️✔️-unstressed, unstressed, stressed
Trochaic - Answer✔️✔️-stressed, unstressed
Dactylic - Answer✔️✔️-stressed, unstressed, unstressed
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