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20 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in a sequence. |
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Allusion |
Brief reference to a person,event, or place or art |
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Anaphora |
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases,clauses, or lines |
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Anrimetabole |
Repetition of words in reverse order |
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Antithesis |
Opposition, or contast, of ideas or parallel construction |
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Archaic diction |
Old fashioned or out dated choice of words |
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Asyndeton |
Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases,clauses, or words |
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Cumulative sentence |
Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning golf the sentence then builds and adds on |
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Hortative sentence |
Sentence that exports,urges,entreats,implores,or calls to action |
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Imperative Sentence |
Sentence that is used to command or enjoin |
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Inversion |
Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) |
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Juxtaposition |
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences |
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Metaphor |
Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as |
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Oxymoron |
Paradoxical juxtaposition of words thar seem to contradict one another |
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Parallelism |
Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses |
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Periodic Sentence |
Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end |
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Personification |
Giving a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea |
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Rhetorical question |
Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for purpose of getting an answer |
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Synecdoche |
Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole |
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Zeugma |
Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meaning |
