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10 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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Extended metaphor with a literal and figurative meaning.
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Allusion
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Brief reference to a person, book, history, etc.
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Alliteration
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A repition of same sounds/letters
crazy cats create cookies |
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Anastrophe
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Inversion of the normal syntactic order of words, for example: To market went she.
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Amplification
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A bare expression usually misunderstood by reader.
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Anagram
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Word or phrase made by the same letters
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Analogy
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Comparison between two things
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Anaphora
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Deliberate repitition of a word of phrase
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Anthropomorphism
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Adding human qualities to a God
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Antithesis
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The opposite or contrast of ideas or word
heaven and hell |
