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19 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Synchysis
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A B A B
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Chiasmus
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A B B A
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Synecdoche
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One for the whole
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Hendiadys
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Subordinating nouns
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Syncope
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Missing letters
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Enjambent
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Continuing into next line
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anaphora
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repetition of the same sound in two or more words.
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Aposiopesis
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abrupt failure to complete a sentence
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Asyndeton
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lack of connectives
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Ecphrasis
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a discriptive digression
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ellipsis
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omission of words
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Hyperbaton
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displacement of a word
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Hysteron-Proteron
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inversion of the natural sequence of events
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onomatopoeia
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use of words whose sound suggests the sense
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polyptoton
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repetition of a word but in a different form
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polysyndeton
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use of unnecessary conjunctions
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prolepsis
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the anticipation in adjectives or nouns of the result of the action of the verb
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tricolon crescens
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a three part increase of emphasis or enlargement of meaning
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Zeugma
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two different words linked to a verb or adjective which is strictly appropriate to only one of them
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