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20 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence
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I've been looking for a lifeline for what seems like a lifetime.
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Allusion
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brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious or to a work of art.
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Her rage seemed as thought she'd start another World War.
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anaphora
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repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines
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No matter how hard we cry, no matter how hard we fall, we should appreciate the life we live.
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antimetabole
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repetition of words in reverse order
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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter.
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antithesis
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opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction
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archaic diction
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old-fashioned or outdated choice of words
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asyndeton
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omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words
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cumulative sentence
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sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentences, then builds and adds on
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hortative sentence
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sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action
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Humans possess many talents, but fail to realize them.
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imperative sentence
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sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat
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Live your life; you never know if today is your last.
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inversion
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inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)
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juxtaposition
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placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
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metaphor
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figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain comparison
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Life is a battery; every encounter seems to drain energy.
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metonymy
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using a single feature to represent the whole
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oxymoron
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paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another
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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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periodic sentence
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sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end
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personification
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attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea
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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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zeugma
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use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous, meaning
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