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17 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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Repetition of the same sound at the beggining of a word.
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Allusion
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A reference to someone or something that is known from history
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Apostraphe
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and address to a person or thing that is not literally listening
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Assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds in words close to each other
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Consonance
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Repetition of final consonant sounds in words close to each other
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect
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Idiom
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expression peculiar to a language
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Metaphor
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and implied comparison between things that are essentially unlike
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Metonomy
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The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant
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Onomatopoeia
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The use of words which sound like what they mean
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Oxymoron
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a combination of contradictory words
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Paradox
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a statement which contains apparantly opposing or incongruous elements
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Personification
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Giving human attributes to an animal, object, or idea
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Pun
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play on words based on the simliarity of sound between two words with different meanings
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Simile
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a comparison of two things usin "like" or "as"
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Synecdoche
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The whole is replaced by the part
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Understatement
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a statement which lessons or minimizes the importance of what is meant
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