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10 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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Extended form of metaphor- person or object represents something outside of the story- story with two meanings
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Alliteration
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repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words
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Allusion
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brief reference to a person, event, or place (real of fictitious)
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Amplification
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use of bare expressions, likely to be ignored or misunderstood by a hearer or reader because of the bluntness. Emphasis through restatement with additional details
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Anagram
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word or phrase made by transposing the letters.
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Analogy
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the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. The key is to ascertain the relationship between the first so you can choose the correct second pair. Part to whole, opposites, results of are types of relationships you should find.
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Anaphora
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The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs.
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Anastrophe
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Inversion of the normal syntactic order of words, for example: To market went she
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Anthropomorphism
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The act of attributing human forms or qualities to an entities which are not human
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Antithesis
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opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction.
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