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35 Cards in this Set
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A narrative in which abstract ideas figure as circumstances or persons, usually to represent a moral truth.
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allegory
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Repetition of the same sound, usually initial, in two or more words. The term normally applies to consonants and accented initial vowels.
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alliteration
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Repetition of a word, usually at the beginning of successive clauses or phrases, for emphasis or for pathetic effect.
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anaphora
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An abrupt failure to complete a sentence for rhetorical effect.
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aposiopesis
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Address of an absent person or an abstraction, usually for pathetic effect.
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apostrophe
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The close recurrence of similar sounds, usually of vowels.
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assonance
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Omission of conjunctions in a closely related series.
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asyndeton
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Arrangement of words, usually adjectives and nouns, in the pattern A B B A.
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chiasmus
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A literary description of a place or of a visual work of art, connected at the end of the description to the main narrative.
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ecphrasis
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Omission of one or more words necessary for complete syntax but the sense of which is understood.
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ellipsis
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The running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines.
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enjambement
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Use of two nouns connected by a conjunction for the meaning of one modified noun.
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hendiadys
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Gross exaggeration for effect.
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hyperbole
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Reversal of the natural and logical order of events or ideas.
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hysteron proteron
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The clearly intentional or apparently unintentional use of words with a meaning contrary to the situation.
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irony
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An understatement for emphasis, usually an assertion of something by negating its opposite.
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litotes
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An implied comparison, that is, the use of a word or words suggesting a likenness between what is actually being described and something else.
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metaphor
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Use of one noun in place of another closely related noun to avoid common or prosaic words.
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metonymy
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Use of words whose sound suggests their meaning.
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onomatopoeia
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The use of apparently contradictory words in the same phrase.
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oxymoron
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Treatment of inanimate objects as human.
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personification
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Use of unnecessary words.
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pleonasm
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Use of unnecessary conjunctions.
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polysyndeton
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Claiming to not mention or “pass over” something that one plans to say.
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praeteritio
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Use of a word before it is appropriate in the context. A proleptic adjective does not apply to its noun until after the action of the verb.
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prolepsis
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The assumption of another’s persona for rhetorical or dramatic effect.
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prosopopoeia
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An expressed comparison, introduced in Latin by a word such as similis, qualis, or velut(i).
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simile
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Interlocking arrangement of pairs of words so that one word of each pair is between the words of the other (A B A B).
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synchesis
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Use of the part for the whole, the whole for the part, or the material of which something is made to avoid common words or to focus attention on a particular part or aspect.
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synecdoche
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Separation of the parts of a compound word, usually for metrical convenience.
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tmesis
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A device of emphasis in which the poet attributes some characteristic of a thing to another thing closely associated with it.
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transferred epithet
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A three-part increase of emphasis or enlargement of meaning.
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tricolon crescens
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The linking of one verb or adjective with two distinct words or clauses; often the connection to the one seems more natural than to the other.
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zeugma
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hyperbaton
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word placement for emphasis
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polyptoton
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repetion of the same word with different endings
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