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18 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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A symbolic narrative where everything symbolizes something else
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Alliteration
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The repetition of an initial constant sound
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Allusion
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A brief usually indirect a a brief indirect reference to a person place or event real or fictional
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ambiguity
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The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage
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Ambivalence
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Uncertainty are fluctuation caused by the inability to make a choice or by simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite are conflicting things
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Amplification
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Expansion of a statement or narrative for rhetorical purposes
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Analogy
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Reasoning or arguing from parallel cases
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Anaphora
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The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses
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Anecdote
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A short account of a particular incident or event an interesting or amusing nature that is usually biographical or personal
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Antecedent
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The noun or noun phrase referred to by a pronoun
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Antithes
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The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases
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Aphorism
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A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion or a brief statement of a principle
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Appeal to Authority
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A fallacy in which a speaker or writer speaker or writer seeks to persuade not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect people have for a famous or institution
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Appeal to ignorance
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A fallacy that uses an opponent inability to disapprove a conclusion as proof of the conclusions correctness
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Argument
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a course of reasoning and at demonstrating truth or falsehood
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Assertion
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A positive statement claim or declaration often without support reason
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Assonance
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The identity or similarity and sound between funeral browse and neighboring words
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Asyndenton
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The omission of conjunctions between words phrases or clauses such as I came I saw I conquered
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