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11 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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two or three word starting with the same letter.
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Pun
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A word that has two meanings.
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Allusion (Biblical; Classical)
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A Reference to something
Biblical to the Bible Classical to the Classicists |
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Simile
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Comparing two things with like or as.
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Metaphor
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Comparing two things not with like or as.
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Symbol
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A word that has many different meanings.
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Synecdoche
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Part of something that is used to refer to the whole thing.
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Personification
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Giving a human-like quality to something that is not human.
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Hyperbole
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exaggeration
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Onomatopoeia
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A word to describe a sound.
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Oxymoron
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Two words that contradicts each other.
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