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Collection 2 Study Project.

Collection 2 Study Project. Chase Szima Mrs. Ventresco 7th period CP Eng. 11 October 16, 2007. Figures of Speech. A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and that is not meant to be taken literally . Spirits of the dead By : Edgar Allan Poe. Metaphor.

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Collection 2 Study Project.

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  1. Collection 2 Study Project. Chase Szima Mrs. Ventresco 7th period CP Eng. 11 October 16, 2007.

  2. Figures of Speech • A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and that is not meant to be taken literally. • Spirits of the dead • By: Edgar Allan Poe

  3. Metaphor • Compares two unlike things without using specific words of comparison such as like, as, than, or resembles. • GONE is the long, long winter night; • Poem: The Arctic Lover • By: William Cullen Bryant

  4. Symbolyism • A person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than just itself. • Her eggs the screaming sea-fowl piles Beside the pebbly shore. • Poem: The Arctic Lover. • By : William Cullen Bryant

  5. Rhythm • The alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language. • Poem: Lenore • By: Edgar Allan Poe

  6. Rhyme • The repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables. • A Certain Young Lady • Poem by: Washington Irving.

  7. Meter • A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. • Poem: Lenore • By: Edgar Allan Poe

  8. Alliteration • The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. • Poem: America • By: Herman Melville

  9. Onomatopoeia • The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests it meaning. • Poem: The Raven • By: Edgar Allan Poe • A rapping, tapping at my chamber door.

  10. Assonance • The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words close together. • Poem: The Raven • By: Edgar Allan Poe

  11. Consonance • The repetition of the same or similar final consonant sounds on accented syllables or in important words. • Wild Apples • By: Henry David Thoreau

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