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15 Cards in this Set
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Hyperbole
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a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or hummourus effect.
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Bias
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impartial judgement.
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pathos
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an appeal to the audience's emotion.
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Consonance
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the repetition in two or more nearby words of similar consonat sounds preceded by different accented vowels.
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Assonance
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the repetition of vowel sounds in two or more nearby words.
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Connotation
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the emotional associations of a term.
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Dennotation
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the objective meaning of a term.
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Alliteration
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the repetition of consonant sounds at the begining of words.
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ethos
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appealing to the audience through the credibility of the speaker in a literary work.
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Cohesion
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the sense of unity and interrelation among ideas in a piece of writing.
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Metaphor
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a comparison between two things that does NOT use "like" or "as"
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Simile
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the comparison of two things using "like" and "as"
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Motif
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a reoccuring word, phrase, image, idea, object or action in a literary work.
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Vernacular
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the standard native language of country or region.
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exigence
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an authors motivation for writing or speaking.
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