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14 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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The repitition of initial sounds in adjacent words or syllables.
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Anaphora
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A repitition of a word or a phrase of the beggining of a sentence.
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Assonance
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Reppitition of vowels.
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Epistrophe
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A repitition of a word or a phrase at the end of a sentence.
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Hyperbole
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Extravagant exaggeration used as a figure of speech.
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Hypophora
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The speaker poses a question and answers it.
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Irony
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The use of words to express the opposite of what one really means.
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Metaphor
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Comparison of two unlike things without useing like or as.
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Onomatopoeia
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Word that sounds like it is spelled.
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Parallelism
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Repitition, words, phrases with gramatical structure.
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Simile
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Comparison of two unlike thing using like or as.
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Repitition
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Repeating...
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Rhetorical question
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A question asked with no expected answer.
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Understatement
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To state with restraint especially effect.
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