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15 Cards in this Set
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Using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance.
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parallel structure
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The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables.
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alliteration
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Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words.
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assonance
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A rhetorical figure in which contradictory terms are combined, as in a defeaning silence and a mournful optimist.
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oxymoron
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Time setting for An Iowa Christmas:
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1913
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Time setting for The Gift of the Magi?
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1920
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Time setting for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn:
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1911
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What are the two functions of a colon:
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Explanation and listing
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previous or former
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late
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The repetition of conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect, as in the phrase here and there and everywhere.
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polysyndeton
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The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things.
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imagery
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except or to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss
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save
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unkind, mean, or poor
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mean
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Conforming or limited to the simplest, nonfigurative, or most obvious meaning of a word or words.
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literal meaning
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Imaginative or symbolic; not literal
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figurative meaning
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