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23 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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Extending ametaphorso that objects, persons, and actions in a text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text.
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Anaphora
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The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.
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Antecedent
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Thenounornoun phrasereferred to by apronoun
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Antithesis
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The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
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Aphorism
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A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion.
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Apostrophe
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A rhetorical term for breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing.
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Assonance
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The identity or similarity in sound between internalvowelsin neighboring words.
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Asyndeton
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The omission ofconjunctionsbetween words, phrases, or clauses (opposite ofpolysyndeton).
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Denotation
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The direct or dictionary meaning of a word, in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
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Didactic
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Intended or inclined to teach or instruct, often excessively.
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Encomium
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A tribute oreulogyin prose or verse glorifying people, objects, ideas, or events.
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Epiphora
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The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses. (Also known a sepistrophe.)
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Epitaph
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(1) A short inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone or monument.(2) A statement or speech commemorating someone who has died: a funeral oration.
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Euphemism
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Polite wording utilized as a replacement for a more blunt/offensive term or statement.
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Induction
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A method of reasoning by which a rhetor collects a number of instances and forms a generalization that is meant to apply to all instances.
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Invective
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Denunciatory or abusive language; discourse that casts blame on somebody or something.
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Isocolon
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A succession of phrases of approximately equal length and corresponding structure.
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Litotes
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A figure of speech consisting of anunderstatementin which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite
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Metonymy
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A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty").
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Mode of Discourse
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The way in which information is presented in a text. The four traditional modes arenarration,description,exposition, andargument.
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Syllogism
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A form ofdeductive reasoningconsisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
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Synecdoche
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A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part.
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Zeugma
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The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one.
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