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52 Cards in this Set
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personification
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Giving human qualities to a nonhuman
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paradox
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contradictory truth "eternal life"
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oxymoron
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"cruel kindess"
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metonymy
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substituting one for another
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synecdote
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"count heads" part as whole
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allusion
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referense to something else
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hyperbole
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an exageration
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irony
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opposite to waht is expercted
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epithet
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an insulting wor or phrase that describes "richard the lion-hearted"
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bathos
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insence or overdwn sentimentality
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understatement
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use of negative or the opposit "the casuality lists understate the extent of disaster."
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coneit
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extended metaphor
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symbol
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something concrete/tangible
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euphemism
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less offensive expression
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pahtetic fallacy
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see personification
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apostrophe
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direct address of somone/something thats not prsent
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anitheisis
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see oxymoron
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aphorism
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wise old saying
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epigram
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verse which uses satire (attacks something)
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parallelism
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grammatical consistency
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anathema
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attack or criticism
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analogy
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pair of two thing w. realtionship comparison
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rhetorical quesiton
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question which leads audience
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inversion
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changer in order to add emphasis "Mad must i be?"
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metaphor
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comparision using/applying is
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similie
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use like/as
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satire
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uses humor to mock a problem of society
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alltiration
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comencement of two or more stressed syllables
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assonance
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resemblenceof sounds, vowel rhymes
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consonance
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correspondence of sounds
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onomatopeia
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formation of word by imitaion of sound
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diction
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accent, inflection
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connotations
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suggeseted w/ word or thing.
"Hollywood holds connotations of raomance and glittering success. |
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syntax
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study or rules whereby words or other elements are combined to form grammatical sentences
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periodic
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marked by repeated cycles
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cumulative
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increasing/growing by accumulation
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irony
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meaning opposite or literal meaning
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rhyme scheme
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pattern or end lines
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masculine rhyme
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single stressed syllable
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feminie fhyme
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two unstressed syllables or three syllanles which sencond and third are unstressed
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sonnet
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verse w/ 14 lines
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dirge
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song for morning
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elegy
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poem for morning
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lyric
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deeply personal
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epitaph
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summaries of dead person
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parable
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short moral story
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epic
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adventerous story w. wide scope (many people/years0
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novel
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narrative w. details
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rommance
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narrative w. charecters/events/heroic deeds--Indiana Jones
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tragedy
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downfall of main charecter
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allegory
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stories where all details are symbolic
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morck heoric/epic
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riducle of someone or something
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