rene alvarez period 2. imagery the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or...
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Imagery• The formation of
mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectivel.
• Examples• From the family tree
of old school hip hop Kick off your shoes and relax your socks The rhymes will spread just like a pox Cause the music is live like an electric shock.
Irony
• The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
• Examples.• Yet Brutus says he was
ambitious;And Brutus is an honourable man“
• Water, water, every where,And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink
Analogy
• A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based.
• Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
• Glove is to hand as monitor is to computer.
Hyperbole
• An extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”
• Examples• I am so tired I could
sleep for a year.• He is older than the
hills.
Paradox
• A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
• Examples• Dark knows daylight“.• "Hot understands
cold“.
simile
• An instance of such a figure of speech or a use of words exemplifying it.
• Examples.• Bill ran along the
street and listened to the traffic. His skin was as hot as the concrete.
• I don't like what's going on. I feel like a noodle in boiling water.
Onomatopoeia
• Is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
• Examples• The clock goes tick
tock.• The birds like to tweet
outside my window.
Metaphor
• A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common.
• Examples• The streets were a
furnace, the sun an executioner."
• A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind."
Personification
• An outstanding example of a quality or idea: "He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative
• Examples• Fear knocked on the
door. Faith answered. There was no one there.
• Wind yells while blowing.
Rhyme
• is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words.
• Examples• Little Miss Muffet,
sat on her tuffet.• Humpty Dumpty sat
on a wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
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