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25 Cards in this Set
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Artful Diction; (metaphor, simile, personification)
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Trope
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Artful Syntax; (parallelism, Juxtaposition, antithesis)
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Scheme
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Opposed to concrete, not quantifiable
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Abstract
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form of a metaphor, the meaning of a person, object, or action resides outside the
story, the concrete is within the story |
Allegory
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the comparison of two things alike in some respects
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Analogy
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a sentence not grammatically complete until the end. It has the dependent
clause’s at the beginning and ends with the independent clause |
Periodic Sentence
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sentence that exhorts, advices, calls to action
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Hortative Sentence
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a sentence that requests or commands
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Imperative Sentence
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reasoning from the general of the specific
Ex. Students are bad drivers Aaron drives recklessly Aaron hits small animals daily |
Deduction
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reasoning from the specific to the general
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Induction
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a word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
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Appositive
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a sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one
dependent clause. |
Complex Sentence
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a device where being indirect replaces directness to avoid unpleasantness
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Euphemism
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a way or writing or speaking which censures things, activities, persons, or ideas; it is
accomplished with humor and wit. |
Satire
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when the words and actions of the characters of a work of literature have a different meaning for the reader than they do for the characters.
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Dramatic Irony
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a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant; SARCASM!
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Verbal Irony
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an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does
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Situational Irony
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hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women.
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Misogyny
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to ask for urgently; demand
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Importuning
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wonderful or marvelous
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Prodigious
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causing or being a subject for grief or regret
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Deplorable
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clothing; apparel; attire.
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Raiment
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having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right; precise
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Scrupulous
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the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them
EX. On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold. |
Zeugma
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a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
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Paradox
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