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15 Cards in this Set
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Rhetoric
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specialized lertaty of language in prose and veerse including figures of speech
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Alliteration
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repetition of the same sound beginning in a sequence
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Anaphora
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repition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a successive phrase (We shall not...we shalll not)
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Anthroprumorphism
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given animals or objects human shapes
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Antistrophe
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repition of the word or phrase at the end of successive clauses
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Antithesis
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contrast of words in a parallel construction
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Apostrophe
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sudden turn fomr the general audience to address a specfic group (Thank God)
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Assonance
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reptition of same sound in words (Thy kingdom come, thy will be done)
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Cacophony
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clash of sounds
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Catharsis
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a piece of work that makes you cry
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Hyperbole
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exaggerations
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Irony
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words say 1 thing but mean another
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Metaphor
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comparison of things wtihout using words like and as
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Paradox
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things that do not make sense
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Onomatopoela
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words that imitate sounds (pow, ring)
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