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14 Cards in this Set
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conceit |
A fanciful and elaborate figure of speech that makes a surprising connection between two seemingly dissimilar things |
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Epithet |
An adjective or other descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place, or thing |
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Farce |
A play that is characterized by broad humor, wild antics and often slapstick pratfalls or other physical humor |
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Hyperbole |
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth or stretching the truth |
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Linguistics |
The study of nature and structure of human speech |
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Melodrama |
A type of drama related to tragedy but featuring sensational incidents; having a happy ending in which good triumphs over evil |
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Oxymoron |
A figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or incongruous ideas |
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Rhetorical Figure |
Words and expressions employed to achieve particular emphasis and effect |
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Romanticism |
A movement in literature beginning in the 19th century that stretched personal emotion, free play of the imagination and freedom from rules of form |
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Tall Tale |
A type of folk literature characterized by humorous exaggeration and outlandish plot details
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Tenor |
The ideas conveyed in a metaphor or simile |
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Tone |
The techniques that reveal or create attitudes towards subjects, his audience, or himself; the emotional coloring or emotional meaning of a work |
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Tragedy |
A play, novel, or other narrative depicting serious and important events, in which the main character comes to an unhappy end |
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Understatement |
The deliberate underplaying of an assertion to create emphasis |
