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20 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
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Anaphora |
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs |
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Asyndenton |
The omission of conjunctions from constructions in which they would normally be used |
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Allusion |
A brief reference to a person, event, or place, often biblical or mythological |
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Allegory |
A story, play, or picture that conveys a symbolic meaning within its literal meaning |
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Analogy |
A comparison between two dissimilar things |
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Antimetobole |
Parallel clauses that are inverted (If you fail to plan, you plan to fail) |
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Anastrophe |
Inversion of the usual order of the parts of a sentence |
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Apostrophe |
A figure of speech in which an absent person, an abstract concept or and inanimate object is directly addressed |
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Assonance |
The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in stressed syllables (fade and pale) |
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Anapest |
A metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables and one stressed syllable |
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Aside |
A speech wherein a character expresses his thought to another character or to himself in words audible to spectators but supposedly not to the other stage characters present |
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Archetype |
An image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern or a character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore; a preconceived notion of something |
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Alaxandrine |
A poetic line of six iambic feet |
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Aphorism/ Maxim |
A witty statement of principal or precept given in pointed words (Whenever I travel I always bring my journal to ensure I always have something intelligent to read) |
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Anagram |
A word or phrase made by transposing the letter of another ("Tom Marvalo Riddle" to "I am Lord Voldemort") |
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Blank verse |
Unrhymend iambic pentameter lines of poetry |
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Breve |
The proper name for an unstressed syllable in a word or group of words; the unaccented syllable |
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Ballad stanza |
A quatrain comprised of an abxb rhyme scheme, the first and third lines boasting a foot and meter of iambic tetrameter, the second and fourth lines sporting a foot and meter of iambic trimeter |
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Catastrophe/ Denouement |
Act V on Freytag's pyramid- the concluding act of a tragedy that ends in great suffering and/or death- the resolution |
