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21 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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the repetition of consonant sounds
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Sally sell sea shells
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Allusion
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any reference in a literary work to another piece of literature
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usually methology
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
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I'm so hungry I could eat at horse
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anachronism
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putting something in a wrong time period
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euphemism
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nicer way of saying something
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he passed away
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elegy
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song or poem dedicated to the dead
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ellipsis
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...
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antitheses
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when characters are complete opposite
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bildungsroman
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coming of age story
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caesura
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pause or break in a line of poetry
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foil
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a character who contrast with the main character
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Tone
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author's attitude towards their work
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doggerel
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any type of clumsy or awkward verse
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greeting card
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oxymoron
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contradiction of two words
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synechdoche
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part that represents whole
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lampoon
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publicly mocking
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metonymy
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figure of speech that replaces something closer to it
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paradox
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contradiction of a statement
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picaresque
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novel in which a hero accounts of events in 1st person
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Frame story
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story within a story
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enjambment
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big run on statement
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