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30 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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Extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself.
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Alliteration
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Repetion of letters or similar sounds.
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Allusion
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Reference to another literary work, often Biblical.
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Analogy
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The comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship.
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Anaphora
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Deliberate repittiion of a word or phrase.
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Antithesis
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Opposition or contrast of words.
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Apostrophe
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A breaking away from the current addresse towards another.
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Assonance
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Repitition of vowels or similar vowel sounds.
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Caesura
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Natural pause or break.
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Chiasmus
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ABBA. Do not confuse with synchesis.
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Connotation
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Implied meaning of a word. Opposite of denotation.
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Consonance
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Repitition of consonants or similar consonantal sounds.
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Denotation
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Literal meaning of a word. Opposite of connotation.
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Diction
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Writers choice of words, phrases, and sentence structure.
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Hypebole
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Exaggeration.
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Imagery
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Lanuage that invokes one or all of the five senses.
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Irony
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Implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant
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Metaphor
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Comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be."
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Metonymy
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Substituting a word for another word closely associated with it.
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Oxymoron
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The putting of two contradictory words together.
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Onomatopoeia
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Word imitating the sound it represents. Ex. splash, bang.
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Paradox
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A kid of truth which appears to contradict itself.
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Personification
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The giving of human characteristics to animals or objects.
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Polysyndeton
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Repitition of connective or conjuctions in close sucession.
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Simile
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Comparision using "like," or "as."
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Synecdoce
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Using of part for a whole.
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Syntax
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The way in which words are put together.
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Tone
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Attitude a writer takes towards a subject or character.
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Versimilitude
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Something that has the appearance of being true or real.
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Verse
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A line of poetry.
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