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19 Cards in this Set
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Allegory |
a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. |
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Antithesis |
a person or thing that is a direct opposite of another person or thing |
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Apostrophe |
an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person, typically one who is dead or absent, or a personified thing |
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Assonance |
repetition of a sound or vowel in non rhyming stressed syllables |
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Connotation |
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning |
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Denotation |
the literal meaning of a word in response to its connotation |
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Distortion |
verbal exaggeration to create an immediate, comic, often satirical effect |
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Hyperbole |
understatement for rhetorical effect, an affirmative statement that is made by negating its opposite |
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Onomatopoeia |
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what it is named |
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Visual Imagery |
sight, visualization |
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Auditory Imagery |
Sounds |
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Olfactory Imagery |
odor and smells |
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Gustatory Imagery |
taste |
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Tactile Imagery |
Texture, touch |
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Kinesthetic Imagery |
Movement |
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Organic |
Hunger, Thirst, state of being |
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Dramatic Irony |
the readers knowledge of events surpasses the characters |
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Situational Irony |
something in the situation is not what is expected |
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Verbal Irony |
a person says or writes one thing and means another |
