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13 Cards in this Set
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understatement |
this device is used to understate the obvious |
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rhetorical question |
figure of speech in the form of a question without the expectation of a reply |
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apostrophe |
someone absent, dead, imaginary, or an abstraction is being addressed as if it could reply |
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diction |
choice of words for effect |
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syntax |
word order or grammatical appropriateness |
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denotation |
Basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word |
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allegory |
characters are symbols, has a moral |
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connotation |
what a word suggest beyond its surface |
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alliteration |
repetition at close intervals of initial consonant words |
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assonance |
repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds |
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consonance |
repetition at close intervals of final consonant |
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cacophony |
harsh, non melodic, unpleasant sounding arrangement of words |
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euphony |
pleasant, easy to articulate words |
