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9 Cards in this Set
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Sibilance
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a hissing consonant sound as in ‘s’ or ‘z’
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Juxtaposition
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placing two images, ideas or words that are otherwise not commonly brought together appear side by side or structurally close together, thereby forcing the reader to stop and reconsider the meaning of the text through the contrasting images, ideas, motifs, etc
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Enjambment
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when the sense and grammatical structure runs from one line of verse to the next without a pause / punctuation mark
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Anaphora
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repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect.
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Connotations (Negative & Positive)
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the special, often emotive, sense of a given word
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Double Entendre
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A double entendre is a figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways.
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Idiom
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an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either grammatically or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements
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Syntax
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the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences
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Paradox
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a statement, proposition or person that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
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