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16 Cards in this Set
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A reference to something previously mentioned or recorded in the past of history and/or literature |
Allusion |
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The author's choice of words |
Diction |
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The collection of mental pictures, or images in a literary work |
Imagery |
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One-way communication style used to elicit a highly emotional response |
Rhetoric |
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Something that literally cannot be true but figuratively can produce a moral truth |
Paradox |
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An exaggerated comparison of the seemingly different entities that does not use like or as |
Hyperbole |
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The author or speaker's attitude toward a particular piece |
Tone |
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"an artistic work" in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, wit, to all of the above |
Satire |
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A comparison using "like" or "as" |
Simile |
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Something that turns out the exact opposite of the way it should |
Irony |
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Repetition of similar vowel sounds |
Assonance |
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The increasing feeling of interest and excitement, even a sense of impending disaster, that readers experience as the plot of a work builds to a climax |
Suspense |
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An overall feeling created by the author's diction and tone |
Mood |
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A comparison between two unlike subjects, throughout a long passage or even an entire poem |
Extended Metaphor |
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A widely held but fixed an oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing |
Stereotype |
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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |
Alliteration |
