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8 Cards in this Set

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Alliteration
Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence
Let us go forth to lead the land we love
Allusion
Brief reference to a person, even, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art
Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah.
Anaphora
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines
not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are.
Anitimetabole
Repetition of words in reverse order
Ask not what your country- ask what you can do for your country.
Antithesis
Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction
We shall support any friend, oppose any foe
Archaic Diction
Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words
beliefs for which out forebears fought
Asyndeton
Omission conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Cumulative Sentence
Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on
But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take great comfort 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.