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14 Cards in this Set
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alliteration: |
The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. |
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apostrophe: |
A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply. |
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consonance: |
The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words |
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connotation: |
What a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word's overtones of meaning. |
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denotation: |
The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word. |
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paradox: |
A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements. |
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irony: |
A situation, or a use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy. Three kinds are distinguished: verbal, dramatic, and situation. |
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synecdoche: |
A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole. In the book it is subsumed under the term Metonymy. |
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hyperbole |
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth. example: "I'm starved!" |
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meiosis (understatement): |
A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants. |
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iambic pentameter: |
A basic measure of English poetry, five iambic feet in each line. Blank verse is in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Heroic verse is in rhymed or unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
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meter |
Regularized rhythm; an arrangement of language in which the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time. |
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metonymy: |
A figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience. |
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onomatopoeia: |
The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound (for example, "boom, click, plop"). |
