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34 Cards in this Set
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Allusion
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a brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object
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Analogy
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a comparison of two things, alike in certain aspects
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Anthimera
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the use of one part of speech for another
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Conceit
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a long, complex metaphor
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Erotema
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(rhetorical question)- asking a question for a purpose of asserting or denying something indirectly, rather than for eliciting a response
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Genre
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a major literary category
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Hyperbole
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(overstatement)- the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect
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Irony (Dramatic)
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information known to the audience but hidden from the characters
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Irony (Situation-Cosmic)
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when twists of events result in an order that seems driven by an outside force, or when events are highly expected
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Irony (Verbal)
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conveying a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word used
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Litotes
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deliberate use of understatement, not to deceive someone but to enhance the impressiveness of what we say.
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Metaphor
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an implied comparison between two things of unlike nature that have something in common
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Metonymy
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substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant
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Onomatopoeia
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use of words whose sound echoes the sense
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Oxymoron
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The yoking of two terms that are ordinarily contradictory
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Paradox
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an apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains some truth
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Periphrasis
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Substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with that name
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Prosopopeia
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(personification)- investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities
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Pun
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a play on words where a word can have multiple meanings
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Simile
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an explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common (using “like” or “as”)
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Synecdoche
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a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole (or the genus for the species or vice versa)
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Parallelism
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similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
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Antithesis
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the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure
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Alliteration
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repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words
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Antithesis
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juxtaposing (setting off) two things in parallel structure
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Assonance
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repetition of similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllable of adjacent words
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Anaphora
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repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of clauses
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Epistrophe
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repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses
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Chiasmus
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(reverse parallelism)-reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses but without repetition of words.
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Connotation
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the emotional implications attached to a word
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Denotation
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the literal meaning of a word, independent of its emotional associations
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Archaic
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obsolete phrasing, idiom, syntax or spelling
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Colloquialism
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an expression used in informal speech but not accepted universally in formal speech and writing. Lies between formal and slang.
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Slang
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vernacular speech, not accepted for formal speech-usually used in writing for humor, exaggeration or onomatopoeia effect.
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