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12 Cards in this Set
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epithet
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word or phrase repeatedly used in association with a person or thing; always draws from some aspect or quality
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"heartfelt thanks"
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hyperbole
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use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect
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"as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food"
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irony
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use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word
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"This plan means that one generation pay for another"
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litotes
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deliberate use of understatement in which the affirmative is expressed by a negative of the contrary
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"It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain."
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metaphor
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implied comparison between two unlike things. Does not use like or as.
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"frosted wedding cake of a ceiling"
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neologism
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a new word or usage
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ex: "mouse" (now used also as a computer apparatus, used to only mean the furry, annoying rodent crawling around in your house)
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oxymoron
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putting two contradictory terms together
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"unheard sounds", "waking sleep"
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paradox
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apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth
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"Art is a form of lying to tell the truth"
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personification
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giving inanimate objects human characteristics
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"The night comes crawling in on all fours"
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rhetorical question
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asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely
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"Wasn't the cult of James a revealing symbol and a symbol of an age and society which wanted to dwell like him in some false world of false art and false culture?"
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simile
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explicit comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
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"The night is bleeding like a cut."
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synecdoche
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figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole.
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"There is no word from the Pentagon on the new rumors from Somalia"
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