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15 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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repition of same beginning sounds in close words
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rhythm
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the beat of a poem, the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
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structure
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number and length of lines, including the presence of stanzas
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tone
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alttitude of the speaker
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ironic tone
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where one thing is said but something else is meant
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denotation
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dictionary meaning
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connotation
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range of association
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hyberbole
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exxagerations
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litotes
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understatemetns
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simile
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a figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though
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metaphor
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a comparason between essentially unlike tyinkgs without a word suchas as like or as
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symbol
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an object or action in a literary work that means more than itself
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figurative language
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a form of language use in which writeres and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words
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synecdoche
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a figure of speech in which a part is substitued for the whole
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Metonymy
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a figure of speech in which a closely related term is substitued for an object or idea
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