Quiz 2

• Alliteration: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other.

  Example: Peter Piper picked a patch of pickled peppers.
• Onomatopoeia: Words that imitate the natural sound of the thing they describe.
• Idiom: A phrase with deeper meaning than the literal understanding spur of the moment.
• Repetition: The purposeful re-use of words and phrases to create emphasis or convey a particular effect.
• Assonance: Repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other, usually on the same adjacent lines.

  
  

  Example: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
• Hyperbole: An extremely exaggerated meaning.
• Simile: Creates a comparison between two seeming unlike things by using the words 'like' or 'as'.
• Metaphor: Creates a comparison between two seeming unlike things without using the words 'like' or 'as'.
• Personification: Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea.
• Symbolism: When a simple or ordinary object, event, animal or person represents deeper meaning or significance.

  
  

  Example: A raging fire can symbolize anger, punishment and destruction, but also rebirth.
• Imagery: Language that can stimulate the reader's five senses. Example: It smells of oranges and and fresh bread.
• Perspective Writing: The main purpose of any descriptive writing piece is to describe a person, place, or thing in such a way that a clear picture is able to be formed in the reader's head.

  When writing descriptively make sure to have vivid details using imagery.
• Allegory: A narrative, poem or visual that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden or deeper message. (Typically a moral one)

  
  

  Example: The Lion and The Mouse allegory: The weakest can help the strongest.