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42 Cards in this Set
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all of the associations that we bring to a word
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connotation
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dicitionary definition to what the word prefers
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denotation
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reference to literary or historical related item
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allusion
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applied to any literature that teaches moral lesson
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didactic
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world picture; appeals to five sentences
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image
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prevading atmosphere of a piece of literature
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mood
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side-by-side two contradictory words or phrases
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oxymoron
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compare unlikes
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figures of speech
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what seems to be true vs. what is true
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irony
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reader knows something that the character doesn't
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dramatic irony
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opposite to the expected happens
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situation irony
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say one thing, mean the opposite
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verbal irony
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"like" or "as"
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simile
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comparison of unlikes ("he IS")
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metaphor
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human qualities to inanimate objects
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personification
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object stands for idea
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symbol
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part stands for whole or opposite (all hands on deck)
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synedoche
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gross exaggeration
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hyperbole
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author addresses an inanimate object
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apostrophe
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"he's no Einstein"
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litotes
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close association (The White House said)
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meonomy
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extended metaphor (thinking to breathing)
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analogy
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form of lit. whereby the characters/places stand for ideas and concepts outside the story (Hawthorne's Pilgrim's Pride)
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allegory
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short story to illustrate a point
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anecdote
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take notes on something of interest
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annotation
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an inscription on a building, statue, etc.
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epigaph
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specific work rewritten in same style to make fun of it
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parody
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take human weaknesses, exaggerate them to hold them to ridicule
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satire
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"graveyard" poetry (melancholy)
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elegy
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statement of general truth
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aphorism
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statement of general truth
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aphorism
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short, light-hearted poem (can be satrical)
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epigram
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example: the "black chill"
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synaesthesia
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the author's attitude towards the subject and reader
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tone
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something that has been left out
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elliptical
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"united we stand", "divided we fall"
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inversion
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starting with subject/ending with subject
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loose/periodic
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coordinating word order/ideas to create a certain effect/emphasis
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parallelisms
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repetition of grammatical structure
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phrasing
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reinforces meaning, construction, tone
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punctuation marks
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direct contrast
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antithesis
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a question that is asked that there is no answer (to give a point without soliciting an answer)
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rhetorical question
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