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31 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words
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Anadiplosis
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repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
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Anaphora
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repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of phrases, clauses, or sentences
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Anastrophe
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inversion of the natural or usual word order
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Antithesis
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the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas
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Apophasis
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asserts or emphasizes something by seeming to pass over, ignore, or deny it
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Apposition
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placing, side by side, two co-ordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation of the first
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Assonance
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the repetition of similar vowel sounds in two or more adjacent words
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Asyndeton
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deliberate omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses
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Chaismus
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reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses
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Climax
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arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing importance
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Ellipsis
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deliberate omission of a word or words, which are readily implied by the context
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Epanalepsis
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repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause
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Epistrophe
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repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive phrases or clauses
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Euphemism
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the substitution of less pungent words for harsh ones, with ironic effect
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Expletive
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a single word or phrase, usuallt interrupting normal syntax, used to lend emphasisto the words immediately proximate to the expletive
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Hyperbole
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the use of exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect
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Hypophora
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raising questions, then answering them
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Litotes
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the use of deliberate understatement for emphasis or effect
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Metaphor
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implied comparison between two things of unlike nature, yet which have something in common
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Metonymy
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using words, that sound like what they mean
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Oxymoron
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a paradox reduced to two words
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Paradox
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a statement that appears to be contradictory but, in fact, has some truth
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Parallelism
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similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
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Paranthesis
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insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence
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Personification
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investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities
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Polysyndeton
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deliberate use of many conjunctions
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Pun
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word play
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Rhetorical Question
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asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely
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Simile
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an explicit comparison, usually using "like", "as", or "than" between two things of unlike nature yet have something in common
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Synecdoche
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using a part to represent a whole
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