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30 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
Repeat consonants at the beginning of words |
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Assonance |
Repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other |
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Consonants |
Repeated consonant sounds at the ending of words |
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Cacophony |
A discordant series of harsh, unpleasant sound helps to convey disorder |
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Euphony |
A series of musical pleasant sound Conveying a sense of harmony and beauty to language |
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Onomatopoeia |
Words that sounds like their meanings |
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Repetition |
The purposeful reuse of words and phrases for an effect |
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Rhyme |
Ending sounds the same |
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Rhythm |
Regular pattern of accented separated by unaccounted syllables |
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Allegory |
A representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning |
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Allusion |
A brief reference to some personal, historical event, art... |
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Ambiguity |
Can mean more than one thing, even in it's context. |
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Analogy |
A comparison, something unfamiliar with something familiar |
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Apostrophe |
Speaking directly to a real or imagined listener or inanimate object |
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Cliche |
Any figure of speech that was once clever but it's over used and outdated now |
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Connotation |
The emotional, psychological or social overtone of a word It's literally meaning |
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Contrast |
Closely arranged things with strikingly different characters |
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Denotation |
It's literal meaning apart from any associations or connections |
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Euphemism |
An understatement, substituting something innocent for something that might be offensive or hurtful |
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Hyperbole |
an outrageous exaggeration |
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Irony |
A contradictory statement or situation to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true. |
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Metaphor |
A direct comparison between two unlikely things |
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Metonymy |
A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it |
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Oxymoron |
A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other |
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Paradox |
A statement in which a seeming contradiction may reveal an unexpected truth |
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Personification |
Attributing human characteristics to a thing |
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Pun |
Word play in which words with totally different meanings have similar or identical sounds |
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Simile |
Comparison with like or as |
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Symbol |
A thing we attached extraordinary meaning and significance |
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Synecdoche |
Indicating a person, object by letting only a certain part represent the whole |
