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23 Cards in this Set
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Ad hominem argument |
To or against the man |
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Allegory |
Using story or character elements symbolically to represent the literal meaning. |
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Alliteration |
Repetition of sound. |
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Allusion |
A direct or indirect reference that is commonly known. |
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Ambiguity |
Multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional of a part of speech. |
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Analogy |
A similarity or comparison between 2 different things or a relationship between them. |
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Antecedent |
Word, clause, or phrase, referred to by a pronoun. |
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Antithesis |
Figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences with in a grammatical structure. |
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Aphorism |
Terse statement of known authorship that express a general truth or moral principle. |
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Apostrophe |
Figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction. |
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Atmosphere |
Emotional mood created by the entirely of literary work, established by setting and authors choice. |
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Caricature |
Representation, pictorially or literary, in which the subject's features are used to produce an effect. |
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Chiasmus |
Figure of speech based on invented parallelism. |
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Clause |
Grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. |
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Colloquialism |
Slang or informal speech. |
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Conceit |
Fanciful expression usually in metaphor or analogy. |
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Connotation |
Nonliteral meaning of a word. |
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Denotation |
Strict, literal definition of a word. |
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Doction |
Style of the writers word choice |
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Didactic |
Instructive/instructing |
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Euphemism |
Greek: good speech More agreeable and less offensive words |
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(Extended) Metaphor |
Metaphor developed at great length |
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Figurative Language |
Writing or speech that is not meant to carry literal meaning |
