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25 Cards in this Set
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Paraphrase
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restate in your own words
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Theme
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central idea or meaning
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Figures of Speech
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a way of saying one thing in terms of something else
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simile
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makes an explicit comparison between two things by using words such as: like, as, than, appears, seems, resembles
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metaphor
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makes a comparison between two unlike things, but it does so without words such as: like, as, than, etc.
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synecdoche
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using part of something to signify the whole
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metonymy
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using a closely related substitution to stand for the subject
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pun
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a play on words that relies on a word having more than one meanign or sounding like another word
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personification
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attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things
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apostrophe
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an address either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or something nonhuman that cannot comprehend
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hyperbole
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exaggeration that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true
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paradox
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a statement that initially appears to be self-contradictory but that, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense
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oxymoron
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two contradictory words used together
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Symbol
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a person, object, or event that suggests more than its literal meaning
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Irony
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a device that reveals a reality different from what appears to be true
ex: situational, verbal,dramatic |
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Tone
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the author's implicit attitude toward the people, places, and events in a piece of writing
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Onamatopoeia
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the use of a word that resembles the sound that it denotes
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Assonance
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repetition of the same vowel sounds in nearby word
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Consonance
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repetition of the same consonant sounds in nearby words
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Alliteration
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repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words
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Rhythm
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recurrence of stresses and unstressed sounds
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Meter
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the rhythmic pattern of stresses in a poem
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Foot
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a metrical unit consisting of atleast one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables (see notes)
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rhyme scheme
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pattern of rhyme in a poem
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scansion
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scanning a line of petry to determine the meter
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