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10 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence
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Allusion
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Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictious, or to a work of art
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Anaphora
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Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines
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Antimetabole
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Repetition of words in reverse order
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Antithesis
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Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction
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Archaic Diction
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Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words
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Asyundeton
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Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words
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Cumulative Sentence
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Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on
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Hortative Sentence
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Sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action
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Imperative sentence
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sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat
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