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25 Cards in this Set
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sardonic |
cynically sarcastic, dark |
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vitriolic |
bitterly hateful |
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litotes |
ironic understatement |
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Mordant |
Very caustic same level as sardonic |
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Dogma |
A strict belief |
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Metonymy |
A figure of speech in which one smaller thing is used to represent a larger |
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Parenthetical comentary |
In the dashes not needed |
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Catalog |
Listing |
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Didactic |
Educational teaching tone |
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Pendantic |
Miniscul and obscure details teaching tone |
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Assonace |
The repition of vowel sounds within words |
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N.P |
No publisher |
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Consonance |
The repition of constonant sounds |
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Jingoism |
Extreme paitrotism |
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Incongruous |
Out of allianment |
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Parenthetical comentary |
In the dashes not needed |
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Chiasmus |
Melodic switches not opposite |
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Veneration |
Respect |
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Gerund phrase |
Verb form that ends in ing and functions as a noun |
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Participal phrase |
Verb phrase that acts as an adjective |
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Telegraphic sentences |
Small sentences with five words or less |
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Zeugma |
When one word apies to two things |
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Periphrasis |
Excess of language and a round about way of explaining things |
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Synecdoche |
One big thing represents a smaller thing |
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Caesura |
A physical break in the text |
