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24 Cards in this Set
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Metaphor
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Compares 2 things by identifying one object with another
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Simile
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Compares 2 things using like or as
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Imagery
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Creates mental picture using 5 senses
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The sweet, tangy smell of ripening apples.
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Irony
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A reversal of expectations. Intended meaning is opposite from normal meaning.
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A nice old woman turns out to be a homicidal maniac
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Allusion
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An unexplained reference to a historical, literacy, or popular event or person.
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Often used with a simile
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Personification
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A comparison by giving an inanimate object human or animal characteristics
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The sun smiled down on me
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Symbol
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An object, place, person or event that represents something like an idea, a concept, a quality.
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Alliteration
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Constant use of similar sounding words. E.g "He bit the bitter Apple bleakly"
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He hit the butter Apple bleakly
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Oxymoron
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A paradoxical phrase or 2 words which are considered opposites
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Jumbo shrimp
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Paradox
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A phrase which is false or contradictory at first but makes sense when examined carefully
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A little learning is a dangerous thing
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Pathetic fallacy
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When nature reflects the events that are occurring
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Murders occurring on dark and stormy nights.
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Hyperbole
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Excessive Exaggeration
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I was so hungry I could eat 50 horses
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Analogy
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A long comparison using sentences or paragraphs
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Pun
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A play on words that sound identical
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Euphemism
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The use of vague or general term to replace blunt expression
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Death ➡ she passed away; she's in a better place
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Cliche
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A metaphor that is overused
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I've passed the point of no return and he took the road less traveled
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Satire
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Diminishing subject by making it ridiculous and evoking toward it attitudes of humour
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Royal Canadian Air Farce, This Hour has 22 minutes
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Onamatopeoa
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Words that sound like what they are
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The popcorn popped and the fire crackled
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Juxtaposition
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Comparison between different things to show a striking difference
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A photograph of a homeless person beside a Wallstreet Banker to do attention to economic problems
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Assonance
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Repeated vowel sounds. E.g "The June moon loomed over the horizon"
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The June moon loomed over the horizon
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Synecdoche
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Using part of an object to stand for the whole thing
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Can you lend me a hand or can I borrow your wheels?
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Allegory
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A simple tale whose major purpose is to teach a moral lesson
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Consonance
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A recursive of similar sounding sounds that relate which are deliberately placed by author for effect
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Knock kneed, coughing like hags, they cursed through sludge.
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Peripharis
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The use of hard words to mislead an audience
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The fiscal restraints on the volatile market have precluded the acquisition of subordinate principal resources
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