English 9 Honors Final Exam

The repetition of the same starting sound in severalwords of a sentence

Is repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse

Speech or writing that departs from literalmeaning in order to achieve a special effect ormeaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech

Any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other thantheir literal sense

Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern

A major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllablesdivided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables

The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses ofthings, or of such images

A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied tosomething to which it is not literally applicable in order tosuggest a resemblance

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared

The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimateobjects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.

He formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation ofa sound made by or associated with its referent.

The act of repeating; repeated action, performance,production, or presentation.

The pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters tosymbolize correspondences

A person who speaks.

An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more,sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forminga division of a poem.