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20 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
Therepetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words orsyllables. |
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Oxymoron |
A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. |
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Allusion |
An indirect reference, often to another text or a historic event. |
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Syntax |
Sentence Structure |
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Hyperbole |
Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. |
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Analogy |
An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. |
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Imagery |
Vivid use of language that evokes a reader’s senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). |
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Juxtaposition |
Placement of two things side by side for emphasis. |
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Motif |
a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition. |
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Personification |
Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. |
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Satire |
An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. |
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Assonance |
In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ). |
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Dialect |
A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group. |
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Monologue |
A long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program. |
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Soliloquy |
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. |
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Metaphor |
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. (no like or as) |
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Allegory |
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. |
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Simile |
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ). uses like and as |
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Couplet |
To lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. |
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Enjambment |
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. |
