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25 Cards in this Set
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Allegory |
hidden meaning |
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Alliteration |
same letter or sound |
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allusion |
a reference to another literary work |
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Anaphora |
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning successive clauses |
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Anastrophe |
yoda talk |
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Anthropomorphism |
giving human characteristics or behavior to something |
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Asyndeton |
absence of a conjunction between parts on a sentence |
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Bildungsroman |
coming of age novel |
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Dysphemism |
opposite of a euphemism (mental facility=loony bin) negative |
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Epistrophe |
the repetition of a word at the END of continuing sentences |
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Ethos |
the credibility of the author or person writing |
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Euphemism |
say something lightly (he died= he went to a better place0 |
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Hyperbole |
exaggerated statement, not emant to be taken seriously |
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Irony |
a firehouse on fire |
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Litotes |
ironical understatement |
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Logos |
logical persuasion |
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Metaphor |
figure of speech "I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression" |
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Onomatopoeia |
whoop whoop snap burp ah-choo |
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Oxymoron |
contradictory terms appear in conjunction "faith unfaithful kept him falsely true" |
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Parody |
the making fun of a written original |
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Pathos |
emotional persuasion |
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Personification |
the giving of human qualities to an inanimate object |
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Polysyndeton |
many links with conjunction, 5 year old at christmas I want a pony, and a ...., and a...., and |
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Simile |
figure of speech using like |
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Synecdoche |
refers to a part or a thing it is made of (check out them wheels=car)( unguard or you may taste my steel=sword) |
