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39 Cards in this Set
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Schemes |
an umbrella term meaning a change in standard word order or pattern |
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Tropes |
the use of a word, phrase, or image in a way not intended by its normal signification, literally, trope means "turn" |
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Verbal Irony |
gap between what the speaker says and what the speaker means ---> sarcasm |
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Situational Irony |
gap between what a character or audience expects to happen and what actually happens |
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Dramatic Irony |
gap between what the audience knows and what the character in the story knows |
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Lexical Ambiguity |
when speaker uses a word that can be understood in more than one way (double entendre) |
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Dramatic Ambiguity |
occurs when the events or motives of a character are unclear |
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Analogy |
A comparison of two things, alike in certain ways. A means of explaining or describing the unfamiliar in terms of the familiar |
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Metaphor |
An analogy comparing one object to another and ascribing to the first object one or more qualities of the second. A metaphor is an implied analogy |
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Simile |
A metaphor that uses "like" or "as" to highlight the fact that a comparison is being made. A simile is an expressed analogy |
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Conceit |
Extended metaphor |
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Tenor |
The idea being expressed or the subject of comparison |
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Vehicle |
The image by which the idea is conveyed or the subject is communicated |
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Associative Realm |
The area of human experience from which the vehicle is drawn. |
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Explicit Metaphor |
Direct comparison between two things; often takes the form of a declarative sentence; often the easiest type of metaphor to identify |
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Embedded Metaphor |
Comparison is buried a bit; often embedded metaphors take the form of verbs or adjective |
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Alliteration |
repetition of beginning sounds |
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Anaphora |
repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence or clause |
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Antithesis |
a presentation of two words or ideas as opposites |
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Antistrephon |
Using an opponent's own words or arguments against her |
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Apophasis |
pretending to deny what is actually affirmed |
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Apostrophe |
direct address of the audience or an opponent |
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Asyndeton |
the omission of conjunctions in a list; often used to speed up the rhythm of a sentence or to highlight multiplicity |
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Chiasmus |
repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order |
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Ellipsis |
deliberate omission of a word easily understood in context |
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Epiphora |
repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of a sentence or clause |
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Parallelism |
recurring syntax; sets up logical or equal relationship between (sometimes) dissimilar ideas; lends a sense of rhythm; often used in conjunction with anaphora |
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Polysyndeton |
deliberate insertion of conjunctions in a list; often slows down the rhythm of a sentence |
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Repetition |
repeated word or phrase, used for emphasis |
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Zeugma |
the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them, or is appropriate to each but in a different way |
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Allusion |
reference to a famous event, person, or text |
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Hyperbole |
deliberate exaggeration; only words if the audience, too, is aware that the exaggeration is intentional |
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Irony |
a gap between expectation and reality |
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Metaphor |
an implied analogy comparing of two objects, alike in some way |
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Metonymy |
a trope which substitutes one word/ image for another word/ image it suggests |
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Personification |
turns an inanimate object into an animate object with thoughts, feelings, etc. Turns an object into a person |
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Rhetorical Question |
a question posed by the reader but not meant to be answered; used for emphasis or provocation |
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Simile |
an expressed analogy using the words "like" or "as" |
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Synechdoche |
a form of Metonymy; uses a part to represent the whole |
