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20 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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-the repetition of an initial consonant sound
-"The soul selects her own society." ~Emily Dickinson |
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Anaphora
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-the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of the successive clauses or verses
-"Off ALL the gin joints in ALL the towns in ALL the world, she walks into mine."~Casablanca |
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Antithesis
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-the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases
-"It was the best of times, It was the worst of times."~Charles Dickenson |
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Apostrophe
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-breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, and inanimate object, or a nonexistent character
-"O western wind, when wilt thou blow that the small rain down can rain?" |
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Assonance
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-identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words
-"It beats... as it sweeps... as it cleans!" |
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Chiasmus
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-a verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed
-"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."~Shakespeare |
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Euphemism
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-the substitution ofan inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit
-Dr. House: I'm busy. Thirteen: We need you to... Dr. House: Actually, as you can see, I'm not busy. It's just a euphemism for "get the hell out of here." |
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Hyperbole
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-an extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect
-"I was helpless. I did not know what in the world to do. I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far."~Mark Twain |
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Irony
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-the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea
-"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." |
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Litotes
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-a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite
-"The grave's a fine a private place, but none, I think, do there embrace."~ Andrew Marvell |
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Metaphor
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-an implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common
"A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind."~ Shakespeare |
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Metonymy
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-a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
-"The suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings." |
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Onomatopoeia
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-the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to
-"Snap, crackle, pop!" |
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Oxymoron
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-a figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side
-"Plastic silverware" |
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Paradox
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-a statement that appears to contradict itself
-"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." ~George Orwell |
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Personification
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-a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities
-"Fear KNOCKED on the door. Faith ANSWERED. There was no one there." |
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Pun
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-a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words
-"Kings worry about their receding HEIR line." |
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Simile
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-a stated comparison between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common
-"My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain."~W.H. Auden |
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Synecdoche
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-a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part
-"All HANDS on deck." |
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Understatement
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-a figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less
important or serious than it is -"It's just a flesh wound."~Monty Python |
