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22 Cards in this Set
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comparison using like or as
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similie
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The use of repeated consonants in neighbouring words
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alliteration
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A casual reference to any aspect of another piece of literature, art, music, person or life in general
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allusion
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A figure of speech where an object or abstract entity is addressed
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apostrophe
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A rhetorical device where a word, or group of words, is repeated in consecutive clauses.
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anaphoria
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The choice of a particular word or words as opposed to others
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diction
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Using a mild or gentle phrase instead of a blunt, embarrassing, or painful one. For instance, saying "Grandfather has gone to a better place" is a euphemism for "Grandfather has died."
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euphemism
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The literary device of exaggeration or overstatement. For example ‘The boy was as big as a whale’.
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hyperbole
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The "mental pictures" that readers imagine whilst reading a passage of literature.
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imagery
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Words or ideas which have an extra layer of meaning, distinctive to the literal one.
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irony
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: A comparison, between two things not usually compared, that implies that one object is another one, figuratively speaking.
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metaphor
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A feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind, especially the predominating atmosphere or tone of a literary work
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mood
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A recurring element, such as an incident, a device, a reference, or verbal formula, which appears frequently in a work of literature.
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motif
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A stanza or section of verse, which contains eight lines. These eight lines generally have a rhythm or pattern.
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octet
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The use of contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level. For instance, "without laws, we can have no freedom".
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oxymoron
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Using contradiction in a way that oddly, and wittily, makes sense on a deeper level.
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paradox
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A group of six lines of poetry, which can either be a whole poem in itself or simply a stanza.
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sestet
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A poem of fourteen lines, typically in iambic pentameter, with regular rhyme
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sonnet
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Sections of arranged lines within a poem.
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stanza
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The study of meaning in languages, in particular the meanings of distinct words and word combinations in phrases and sentences.
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semantics
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The sentence arrangement of a language or standard word order
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syntax
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The mood of a text or part of a text.
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tone
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