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18 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words
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Anaphora
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repetition of words or phrases in successive clauses
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Apostrophe
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breaking apart from story and addressing something or someone that will not respond.
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Assonance
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Repetition of vowel sounds in successive words
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Chiasmus
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arranging words in ABBA word order
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Hiatus
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break in the middle of a line, caused by vowel sound
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hyperbole
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an exaggeration for rhetorical effect
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Hysteron Proteron
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reversal of word order, usually putting important idea at the beginning, though out of chronological order
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Litotes
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double negative; used for emphasis
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Metaphor
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an implied comparison, usually a visual effect
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Metonymy
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when one word is used to imply a similar word; using a part of something to represent the whole being. Example: household god to represent home
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onomatopoeia
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a word which sounds like what it means; pipiabat meaning to chirp
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oxymoron
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juxtaposition of contradictory terms
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simile
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an explicit comparison between one thing and another
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syncopation
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cutting a word down in size in order to fit meter
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synecdoche
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a type of metonymy where a smaller part represents the entire object; wood representing ship
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transferred epithet
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application of an adjective to one noun when it properly belongs to another
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ascending tricolon
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3 phrases or clauses which increase in size, each one being more descriptive and intense than the previous
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