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16 Cards in this Set
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Asyndeton |
Without ands |
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Polysyndeton |
With ands |
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Consonance |
Similar sounds |
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Assonance |
Repition of vowels |
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Alliteration |
She sells sea shells by the sea shore |
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Similie |
Comparison, like or as |
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Metaphor |
Compare without like or as |
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Synecdoche |
Part that stands for a whole |
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Euphemism |
Add humor for bad situation |
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Epistrophe |
Repition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences |
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Anaphora |
Repition of the same word |
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Metonymy |
Substitution of the name of an attribute of adjunct of the thing meant |
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Hyperbole |
Exageration |
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Antithesis |
Contrasting, parallel structure |
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Litotes |
Negative, he's no fool |
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Oxymoron |
Contracting terms |
