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20 Cards in this Set
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alliteration
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Repitition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence
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Let us go forth to lead the land we love.
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allusion
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Brief reference to a person event or place real or fictitous
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Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah
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anaphora
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repetition of a word or phrase at the begining of successive phrases clauses or lines
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not as a call to bear arms, though arms are needed
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antimetabole
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Repetition of words in reverse order
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Ask not what your country can do for but what you can do for your country
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antithesis
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Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in balanced or parallel structure
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We shall support any friend, oppose any foe
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archaic diction
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Old fashioned or outdated choices of words
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beliefs for which our forbears fought
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asyndeton
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Omission of conjuctions between coordinate phrases clauses or words
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We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend
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cumulative sentence
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Sentence that completes the main idea at the begining of the sentence, and then builds and adds on
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But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course—both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.
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hortative sentence
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Sentence that exhorts advises, calls to action
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Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring these problems which divide us
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imperative sentence
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Srntence used to command enjoin, implor or entreat
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My fellow citizens of the world: ask what America will do for you, but what we can do for the freedom of man
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inversion
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inverted order of words in a sentence
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United there is little we cannot do in host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do
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juxtaposition
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placement of two things closley together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
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we are the heirs of the first revolution. Let the word go forth that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century.
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zeugma
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Use of two words grammatically similar way but, producing diffrent, often incoungruos meanings
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Now the trumpet summons us again not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need not as a call to battle, though embattled we are but a call to bear burden.
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metaphor
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Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison
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And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back a jungle of opposition
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personification
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Attribution of a life like quality to an inanimate object or idea
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with history the final judge of our deeds
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metonymy
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Using a single feature to represent a whole idea
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In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or faliure of our course
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oxymoron
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Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contridict each other
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But this peaceful revolution
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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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Let both sides explore...Let both side for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals... Let both sides seek to invoke... Let both sides unite to heed
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periodic sentence
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Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end
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To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support.
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rhetorical question
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Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer
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Will you join in that historic effort?
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