Abeka: world literature quiz 6 – Flashcards
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Simile
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Comparison of unlike things in which the words like, as, resembles, or similar to are used
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Personification
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Comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal
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Metaphor
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Comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another
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"I like to see it lap the miles"
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Description of a locomotive (train)
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"It sifts from leaden sieves"
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Description of snow
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"The oak"
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Comparison of life with a tree
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"A lonely pine is standing"
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A tree's dream of a better life
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Emily divkinson
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Except for seven poems, the poetry of who was not published until after his/her death.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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The English poet who wrote "In Memoriam" and "Idylls of the King".
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Person
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In the poem "the deserted house," the house is a metaphor for a(n) what.
