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25 Cards in this Set
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A reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event.
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Allusion
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I have feet that put Steven Spielberg's ET to shame. They are a tangle of toes held together by bunions.
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A comparison of ideas or objects that are completely differenct but that are alike in one important way.
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Analogy
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Benjamin Franklins balloon flight and its connection to a newborn baby.
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A brief story used to illustrate or make a point.
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Anecdote
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Story makes a point about the unpleasantness of secondhand smoke.
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Using opposite ideas in the same thought or sentence to emphasize a point.
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Antithesis
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A common word or phrase suitable for ordinary, everyday conversation but not for formal speech or writing.
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Colloquialism
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you-all listen up
run this by her... no way |
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An overstatement or stretching of the truth to emphasize a point .
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Exaggeration
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The Danes are so full of the joy of life that they practiclly sweat it.
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A technique in which a writer interrupts a story to go back and explain an earlier time or event for the purpose of making something in the present more clear.
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Flashback
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Later, the author goes back and tells of a characters background.
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Hints or clues that suggest what will happen next or later in the story.
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Foreshadowing
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Exaggeration used to emphasize a point.
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Hyperbole
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An expression in which the author says one thing but means jus the opposite.
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Irony
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Putting two words or ideas close together to create a contrasting of ideas or an ironic meaning.
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Juxtaposition
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Just remember, were all in this alone.
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The use of details that are common in a certain place.
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Local color
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A figure of speech that compares two things without using the words like or as.
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Metaphor
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.
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An exaggeration or a stretching of the truth.
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Overstatement
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A technique in which two words with opposite meanings are put together for a special effect.
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Oxymoron
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war for peace
black light controlled chaos |
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A statement that is true even though it seems to be saying two opposite things.
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Paradox
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I shall always bear the deformities with which I have been blessed.
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Repeating similar grammatical structures to give writing rhythm.
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Parrallism
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All this waste happens before any lid is popped, any can is opened, or any seal is broken.
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A figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing is given human characteristics.
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Personification
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A phrase that uses words that sound the same in a way that gives them a funny effect.
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Pun
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I have come to believe that opposing gravity is something not to be taken lightly.
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Details that are experienced through the senses. They help readers to see, feel, smell, taste, and hear what is being described.
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Sensory details
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A figure of speech that compares two things using like or as.
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Simile
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Informal words or phrases used by a particular group of people amoung themselves.
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Slang
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ain't chill out |
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A concrete object used to represent an idea.
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Symbol
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dove=peace
hourglass=time passing |
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Using part of something to represent the whole.
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Synecdoche
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Idle hands are the devil's playground.
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The opposite of exaggeration. By using very calm language, an author can bring special attention to an object.
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Understatement
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