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14 Cards in this Set
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METAPHORE
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A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison
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SIMILE
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A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as
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PERSONIFICATION
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A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form
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HYPERBOLE
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A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
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ONOMATOPOEIA
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The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
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REPETITION
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keeps happing over and over again!
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utopia
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perfect lives in harmony with one another
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DYSTOPIA
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HORRIBLE RULES IN FEAR UNPERFECT
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THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s.
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FDR
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Nickname of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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THE NEW DEAL
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The economic measures introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to counteract the effects of the Great Depression
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KKK
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Ku Klux Klan
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JIM CROW LAWS
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The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation...
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ALLITERATION
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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
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