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41 Cards in this Set
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Why not waste a wild weekend at Westmore Water Park?
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Alliteration
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This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war - Shakespeare |
Anaphora
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The sergeant asked him to bomb the lawn with hotpots.
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Assonance
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Chicken for dinner? Dinner will be boring!
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Anadiplosisis
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When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. The Bible, 1 Cor 13:11
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Asyndeton
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“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” -Lord Acton
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Aphorism
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"Don't count your chickens before they hatch" – a wise saying
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Adage
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Animal Farm is an _________________, a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than the literal.
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Allegory
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The phrase denotes an argument designed to appeal to the listener's emotions rather than to reason.
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Ad Hominem
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The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition.
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Apostrophe
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It is boring to eat, to sleep is fulfilling
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Chiasmus
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“The dog walked out the door as in walked the cat.”
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Chiasmus
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“You have cert’nly got the most asonishin’ head I ever did see.”
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Dialect
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He should have seen it coming.
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Colloquialism
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She was certainly a diamond in the rough.
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Cliche
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Brutus: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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antithesis
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Give us this day our daily bread.” Matthew 6
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metonomy
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Glistens the dew upon the morning grass.
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anastrophe
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He died in 1743, at the age of eighty-three, and a Latin_____________written by himself is inscribed on his monument.
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epitaph
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He picked up his hat and a taxi.
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syllepsis
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He was not unfamiliar with the works of Dickens.
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litote
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I ran to the lake, she to the woods.
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ellipsis
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Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave” Dickens
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syllepsis
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O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
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apostrophe
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She was certainly a diamond in the rough.
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cliché
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The bad news caused him to weep and cry and wail
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polysyndeton
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The baker blessed us with his hands.”
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synedoche
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These books weigh a ton
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hyperbole
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This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
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metaphor
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What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young”. George Bernard Shaw (Doesn’t make sense)
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paradox
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when the going gets tough, the tough gets going
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anadiplosis
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We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing conficence and growing strength in the air, we chall defend our island…… Churchill
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anaphora (repetition, parallelism)
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…not as a call to battle, though embatted we are - JFK
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anastrophe (reversal verb)
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There are two kinds of person whom we can describe as reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they have found him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they have not found him
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antithesis (opposition of ideas in parallel structure)
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The dog walked out the door as in walked the cat.”
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chiasmus (inverted order to compare ideas)
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The average person thinks he isn't
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ellipsis (words missing)
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A few unannounced quizzes are not inconceivable
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litote (double negative)
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The pen is mightier than the sword
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metonomy(substituting name with another object associated with it)
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Clang battleaxe and crash brand! Let the King reign. Lord Tennyson
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onomatopoeia
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They read and studied and wrote and drilled. I laughed and played and talked and flunked.
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polysyndeton (multiple "and")
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Listen, you've got to come take a look at my new set of wheels
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synedoche (part of object to represent the whole)
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