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26 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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Using a character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning
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Alliteration
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Repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds ("she sells seashells")
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Ambiguity
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Multiple meanings, intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, etc.
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Analogy
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A similarity or comparison between 2 different things or the relationship between them
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Anaphora
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Same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive phrases, sentences etc.
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Anastrophe
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Normal word order is changed for emphasis
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Antithesis
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Contrast of ideas
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Aphorism
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Expresses a general truth or a moral principle (can be a summation of the author's point)
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Apostrophe
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An address to an absent or imaginary person or an abstract personification
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Clause
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Contains a subject and a verb
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Colloquial
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Slang
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Conceit
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Surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar object- a fanciful expression
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Didactic
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Teaching
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Epistrophe
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Same word is repeated at the end of successive phrases, sentences etc.
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Homily
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"Sermon", any serious talk involving moral advice
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Invective
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Emotionally violent, verbal denunciation using abusive language
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Ironyx3
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Contrast between what is stated and what is really meant or is. Verbal: (i.e. sarcasm); Situational: When events turn out the opposite what is expected; Dramatic: When characters of a play do not know what is to happen, but the audience does
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Litotes
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Understatement
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Metonymy
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The name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it
i.e. "the White House declared" instead of "the president declared" |
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Pedantic
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Scholarly, academic
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Periphrasis
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One substitutes a descriptive word or phrase for a proper noun
i.e. the big man upstairs |
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Synecdoche
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FOS where a part of something is used to represent the whole or the whole is used to represent the part
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Synesthesia
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Using a sensory stimulus to evoke the experience of another
i.e. seeing red ants make you itchy |
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Zeugma
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One verb governs several words, or clauses in a different sense
i.e. he stiffened his drink and his spine. |
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Asyndeton
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Removing conjunctions that would usually be there
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Polysyndeton
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Adding conjunctions that wouldn't normally be there
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