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10 Cards in this Set
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Allusion |
Making an indirect reference to a person, place thing or idea |
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Anaphora |
Repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses
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Oxymoron |
Figure of speech where contradictory terms appear after another
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Parallelism |
Replication in sentences
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Rhetorical
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Different ways to persuade
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Antithesis |
Where opposing ideas are expressed by parallelism
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Asyndeton
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Absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence
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Juxtaposition |
Two things places together to show how different they are
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Metaphor |
Comparing something to something it isn't
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Metonymy |
substituting the name of something with something else associated with it |
