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39 Cards in this Set
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Absolute
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Not Qualified or diminished
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Alliteration
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the occurrence of the same letter at the beginning of adjacent
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Anachronism
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thing or belonging or appropriate to a period other than which it exists
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Anecdote
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short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
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Aphorism
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a pithy observation that contains a general truth
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Apposition
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relationship between two or more words or phrases in which two units grammaticality parallel
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Climax
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the most intense, exciting, or important point of something
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Colloquialism
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a word or phrase that is not formal or literary
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Epistrophe
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the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses
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Ellipsis
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the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to understand from contextual clues
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Allegory
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story or poem that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning.
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Allusion
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the expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it
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Anaphora
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use of a word referring to a word used earlier in a sentence
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Antithesis
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person or thing direct opposite of someone else
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Asyndeton
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the omission of a conjunction between parts of a sentence
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Chiasmus
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literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions are repeated in reverse order
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Cliché
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a phrase or opinion that is overused lacks original thought
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Diction
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word choice in speech or writing
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Dissonance
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lack of agreement, consistency, harmony, conflict
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Epiphany
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appearance or manifestation
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Metonym
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the substitution of the name of an attribute for that of the thing meant
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Mood
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category that indicates whether a verb expresses fact
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Oxymoron
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figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction
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Parable
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simple story used to illustrate a moral
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Paradox
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statement that despite sound reasoning leads to a conclusion that seems senseless
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Parallelism
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state of being parallel or corresponding in some way
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Paraphrase
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express the writer's meaning using different words
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Parody
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the imitation of the style of a particular writer
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Parenthical
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inserted as a parenthesis
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Pathos
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quality that evokes pity or sadness
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Ethos
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culture, era or community as manifested in its beliefs
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Personification
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giving human characteristics to something nonhuman
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Polysyndeton
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conjunctions are used repeatedly in quick succession
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Pun
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joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word
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Resolution
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point in literary work at which dramatic complication is worked out
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Rhetoric
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art of persuasive speaking or writing
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Sarcasm
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use of irony to mock or convey contempt
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Satire
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use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridcule to expose people's stupidity
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Scapegoat
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person or group made to blame for others
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