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20 Cards in this Set
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tenor
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thing being described
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figure of speech/tropes
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types of figurative language that involve an explicit or implicit comparison
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metaphor
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a direct comparison between two unlike things
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implied metaphor
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a metaphor in which either the tenor or vehicle is implied, not stated
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simile
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a comparison using "like," "as," or "than" as a connective device
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conceit
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an extended or far-fetched metaphor, in most cases comparing things that apparently have almost nothing in common
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petrarchan conceit
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a cliched comparison usually relating to a woman's beauty
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metaphysical conceit
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extended comparisons favored by such so-called metaphysical (highly abstract) poets
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hyperbole
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an overstatement, a comparison using conscious exaggeration
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understatement
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the opposite of a hyperbole
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allusion
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a metaphor making a direct comparison to a historical or literary event or character, a myth, a biblical reference, and so forth.
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metonymy
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use of a related object to stand for the thing actually being talked about
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synecdoche
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use of a part for the whole, or vice versa
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personification
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giving human characteristics to nonhuman things or to abstractions
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apostrophe
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a variety of personification in which a nonhuman thing, abstraction, or person not physically present is directly addressed as if it could respond
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paradox
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an apparent contradiction or illogical statement
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oxymoron
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a short paradox, usually consisting of an adjective and noun with conflicting meanings
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synesthesia
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a conscious mixing of two different types of sensory experience
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transferred epithet
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not a trope, it occurs when an adjective is "transferred" from the word it actually modifies to a nearby word
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vehicle
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a concrete image
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