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10 Cards in this Set
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Allusion |
indirect reference to a person, place, or thing |
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Anaphonra |
Repetition of a word or phrase at beginning of a succesive clause |
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Antithesis |
Contrasting ideas using parallelism in the comparison |
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Asyndeton |
absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence |
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juxtaposition |
Two things placed close together for a contrasting effect |
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metaphor |
Comparing something to an object or action |
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metonymy |
Substituting the name of an attribute for that of the thing meant
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oxymoron |
a figure of speech where seemingly contradicting terms appear in conjunction
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parallelism |
Use of successive verbal construction, replicated
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rhetorical |
To persuade or impress |
