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20 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |
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Allusion |
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference |
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Archetype |
A very typical example of a certain person or thing |
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Assonance |
In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible |
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Diction |
Style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words |
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Dramatic Irony |
Irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play |
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Extended Metaphor |
A metaphor introduced and then further developed throught all or part of a literary work, especially a poem |
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Foreshadowing |
To show or indicate before hand; prefigure |
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Hyperbole/Overstatement |
Obvious and intentional exaggeration |
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Idiom |
Am expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements |
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Metaphor |
A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance |
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Onomatopoeia |
The formation of a word by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent |
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Oxymoron |
A figure of speech by which a location produces an incongrous, seemingly self-contradictory effect |
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Personification |
The attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure |
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Pun |
The humourus use of a word or phrased so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words |
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Simile |
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared |
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Situational Irony |
Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected |
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Symbol |
Something used for or regarded as representing sometging else |
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Understatement |
The act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts |
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Verbal Irony |
Irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning |
