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32 Cards in this Set
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Metaphor |
A comparison without the use of as or like |
He is bill gates |
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Simile |
A direct comparison that always contains as or like |
As wealthy as Bill Gates |
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Extended metaphors |
Mor than one metaphor or analogy |
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Personification |
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas |
Autumn arrived |
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Apostrophe |
An abstract idea, an inanimate object or a person who is no longer living is addressed as if they were living |
Oh Shakespeare... |
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Allusion |
This is either direct or an indirect referral to a particular aspect |
Usually poets alluding to the bible. |
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Alliteration |
Repetition of consonants |
Fix flaming flamingos |
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Assonance |
Repetition of a vowel |
In it is his heart |
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Onomatopoeia |
Uses words to imitate and reproduce real sounds |
Bang, hiss, crash |
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Rhyme |
Sound similar to cause effect |
Rough tough |
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Antithesis |
Compares and contradicts within a sentence |
He is a mouse with lion strength |
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Oxymoron |
Contradictory words placed next to each other |
Pretty ugly |
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Paradox |
A somewhat extended oxymoron. Not next to one another |
Kill them with kindness |
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Irony |
Irony implies the opposite of what is said |
Can't wait for detention |
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Dramatic irony |
When the audience is aware of something the actors aren't |
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Sarcasm |
One thing is said when something else is intended |
You work so hard to fail |
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Satire |
Humour used to highlight political or social disputes |
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Parody |
The imitation of other works |
Parody |
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Appropriation (borrowing) |
Confused |
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Epigram |
A brief pointed statement with humor or irony |
Education is expensive try illiteracy |
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Hyperbole |
Over exaggeration not meant to be taken literally |
5 milli people came |
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Litotes |
Litotes use a negative and a positive to understate |
He is no Einstein |
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Euphemism |
Nice way of saying bad things |
He passed away |
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Innuendo |
Disapproving remark which hints at something |
Is that what you're wearing? |
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Climax |
The build up of ascending ideas |
And that's when... |
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Anticlimax(Bathos) |
An anticlimax is also a build up built has an underwhelming ending |
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Puns |
A clever play on words |
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Rhetorical questions |
A question that needs no answer |
Why? |
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Synodoche |
A part is used for a whole or a whole used for a part |
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Metonymy |
Something associated with the object object object |
The hotel was an excellent table |
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Malapropism |
Right word used wrong |
I can ensure you...assure |
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Spoonerism |
Mixing of words |
He hissed the mistory class |
