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10 Cards in this Set
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Litotes
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deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying its opposite
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Anaphora
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repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive lines
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Paralipsis
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stating and drawing attention to something in the very act of passing it over
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Polysyndeton
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employing many conjunctions between clauses
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Hyperbaton
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Inversion of normal word order
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Epistrophe
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ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses or sentences with the same word
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Oxymoron
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two ordinarily opposing terms adjacent to one another
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration
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Apostrophe
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turning one's speech from one audience to another
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Antithesis
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juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideals
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