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27 Cards in this Set
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Parallelism |
balanced parts
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Antithesis
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putting two contrasting ideas together
ex. one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind |
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Chiasmus
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reverse parallelism grammatically
ex. What is learned unwillingly is gladly forgotten |
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Asyndeton
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omit the conjunction
ex. He was a winner, a hero |
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Polysyndeton
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putting conjunction between each word
ex. I laughed and played and talked and flunked |
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Assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds
ex. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid |
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Anaphora
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repetition of words at beginning of clause
ex. Not time, not money, not laws |
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Epistrophe
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repetition of word at end of clause
ex. reason is subdued, honesty is subdued, good will is subdued |
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Anadiplosis
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repeat last word of one clause at beginning of next
ex. Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know |
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Metaphor
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comparison of two unlike things without using like or as
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Synecdoche
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part stands for the whole
ex. give me a hand |
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Metonymy
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whole stands for another thing
ex. the orders came directly from the White House |
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Personification
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giving something human-like characteristics |
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Onomatopoeia
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word that imitates the sound it makes
ex. If you like the plop, plop, plop of a faucet at three in the morning, you will like this record |
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Hyperbole
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exaggeration for effect
ex. there are a thousand reasons why I should not go |
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Litotes
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understatement that denies the opposite
ex. Heat waves are not rare in the summer |
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Aphorism |
a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner |
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Apostrophe |
addressing a person who is not there or addressing an abstraction(death, tree, etc) |
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Cliché |
an idea or expression that is overused or tired |
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Irony |
the use of a word to convey an opposite meaning or the literal definition |
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Oxymoron |
the use of two words whose meanings are contradictory to convey one meaning |
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Paradox |
a self-contradictory and not necessarily true statement |
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Paralipsis |
a kind of irony in which the speaker proposes not to speak of a matter, but still somehow reveals it |
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Pun |
a play on words |
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Rhetorical Question |
usually a question stated to make a point, to ask a question to differ or assert something but not expect an answer |
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Simile |
a comparison using like or as |
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Synaesthesia |
where a part stands for a whole ex: all hand were summoned, hands describing people |
