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23 Cards in this Set
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alliteration
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peter piper pickled peeps
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allusion
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the author alluded to monet by referencing his painting in his writing
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analogy
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green is to grass as blue is to sky....
thats like saying "..." is like "..." (comparison) |
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anaphora
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we shall go on to the end
we shall fight in france we shall fight on the seas and the oceans we shall fight with growing confidence |
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antithesis
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hope is the antithesis of despair
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aphorism
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Life’s Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
(truthful wit) |
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asyntedon
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no conjunctions
He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac "She was young, she was pure, she was new, she was nice, |
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colloquailism
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slang, e.g. swag, what's up?
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conceit
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two unlikely things compared with simile/metaphor.
'the took a leap to the moon' |
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homily
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this term literally means 'sermon' but more informally, it can include serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice.
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zeugma
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the farmer plowed the field and his wife
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cumulative sentence
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main idea is given at the beginning, then added details
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diction
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style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction.
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juxtaposition
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"Juxtaposition" is a placement of two words, descriptions, or concepts literally or figuratively next to each other. The effect on the reader is like sweet and sour sauce, yen and yang: he/she senses the contrast between the two, yet notices that they, for some reason, have a fit. Sometimes the juxtaposition can be temporal, as when a character recalls the darkness of the coal mine while seeing the flash of a bomb. This is a fertile literary device. By way of some humor, juxtaposition is also the father of the oxymoron.
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metonymy
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close word replaces similar other word
white house declared the suits on wall street walked off with the money |
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oxymoron
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sports personality
pretty ugly |
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parallelism
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The dog ran across the yard, jumped over the fence, and sprinted down the alley.
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polemic
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argument against
'coke' 'enjoy diabetes' |
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polysyntedon
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many conjunctions
go and find her and hunt her and kill her |
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rhetorical question
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question not yielding a response
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SCHEMES
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SCHEMES -- Schemes are figures of speech that deal with word order, syntax, letters, and sounds
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syntax
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he arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
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trope
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word not meant for literarl meaning eg metaphor simile irony etc
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