Definitions of Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Rhyme and Rhythm Simile

1. A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”Compare metaphor.
2. An instance of such a figure of speech or a use of words exemplifying it.


Metaphor

1. A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def. 1).
2. Something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else; emblem; symbol.


Personification

1. The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, esp. as a rhetorical figure.
2. The representation of a thing or abstraction in the form of a person, as in art.
3. The person or thing embodying a quality or the like; an embodiment or incarnation: He is the personification of tact.
4. An imaginary person or creature conceived or figured to represent a thing or abstraction.
5. The act of personifying.
6. A character portrayal or representation in a dramatic or literary work.


Rhyme

–noun
1. Identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse.
2. A word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind.
3. Verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines.
4. A poem or piece of verse having such correspondence.
5. Verse (def. 4).
–verb (used with object)
6. To treat in rhyme, as a subject; turn into rhyme, as something in prose.
7. To compose (verse or the like) in metrical form with rhymes.
8. To use (a word) as a rhyme to another word; use (words) as rhymes.
–verb (used without object)
9. To make rhyme or verse; versify.
10. To use rhyme in writing verse.
11. To form a rhyme, as one word or line with another: a word that rhymes with orange.
12. To be composed in metrical form with rhymes, as verse: poetry that rhymes.


Rhythm

–noun
1. Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
2. Music.
a. The pattern of regular or irregular pulses caused in music by the occurrence of strong and weak melodic and harmonic beats.
b. A particular form of this: duple rhythm; triple rhythm.
3.measured movement, as in dancing.
4. Art, Literature. a patterned repetition of a motif, formal element, etc., at regular or irregular intervals in the same or a modified form.
5. The effect produced in a play, film, novel, etc., by the combination or arrangement of formal elements, as length of scenes, speech and description, timing, or recurrent themes, to create movement, tension, and emotional value in the development of the plot.
6. Prosody.
a. Metrical or rhythmical form; meter.
b. A particular kind of metrical form.
c. Metrical movement.
7. The pattern of recurrent strong and weak accents, vocalization and silence, and the distribution and combination of these elements in speech.
8. Physiology. the regular recurrence of an action or function, as of the beat of the heart, or the menstrual cycle.
9. Procedure marked by the regular recurrence of particular elements, phases, etc.: the rhythm of the seasons.
10. Regular recurrence of elements in a system of motion.




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