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25 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
Recurrence of ini(al consonant sounds. Veni, vidi, vici. — Cesar Suddenly, tragedy traveled through our trivial life. |
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Allusion |
Short, informal reference to a famous person or event. If only Leonidas and his 300 were here. And then I faced my personal Waterloo. |
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Amplification |
Repeating a word or expression while adding more detail to it. Adventure. My life is an adventure. My life is an adventure similar to the one of Tom Sawyer. |
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Anadiplosis |
Repetiton of word or phrase at or very near the beginning of the next clause or sentence. I grew up in a village, a village full of cows. These cows were our friends back then. |
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Anaphora |
Repetiton of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. Love is the quesGon. Love is the answer. Love is everything |
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Antimetabole |
Reversing the order of repeated words or phrases (a loosely chiastic structure, AB-BA). |
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Antithesis |
Contrasting relatonship between two ideas. That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. —Neil Armstrong. I was the right fish in the wrong pond. |
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Assonance |
Similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants. One proud round cloud in white high night |
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Asyndeton |
Omitting of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. Public speaking is all about self-confidence, message, impact. |
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Climax |
A good-better-best structure. The good thing about Barcelona is the food. What’s even better is the Mediterranean flair. The best, by far, is the climate. |
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Epistrophe |
Repetiton at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. — The Apostle Paul |
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Epizeuxis |
Repetiton of words in immediate succession, for vehemence or emphasis. O horror, horror, horror. — Macbeth |
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Eponym |
Substitutes for a particular attribute the name of a famous person recognized for that attribute. Is she smart? That girl is an Einstein. |
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Hyperbole |
Deliberately exaggerates conditions for emphasis or effect. The bag weighed a ton. I can give you a thousand reasons! |
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Metaphor |
Comparing two things saying one is the other. All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. — Shakespeare, As You Like It |
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Oxymoron |
Combines contradictory terms. Black milk. Dark light. Likeable lawyer. |
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Paradox |
Anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas. I can resist anything except temptation. — Oscar Wilde We spend the Gme we don't have. |
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Paralipsis |
Asserts or emphasizes something by pointedly seeming to ignore, or deny it. If you were not my father, I would say you were perverse. — Antigone |
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Parallelism |
Gives two or more parts of the sentences a similar form. What you see is what you get. |
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Personification |
Gives an inanimate (non-living) object human traits and qualities. The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky. The book cried; everyone ignored it. |
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Pleonasm |
Use of more words than required to express an idea; being redundant. The point he made was blank, empty and hollow. |
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Procatalepsis |
Anticipates an objection and answers it. In the past, I faced objection at this point. What convinced them was the fact that … |
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Rhetorical Question |
Asking a question as a way of asserting something. Don’t we all work too much? Have you never lied in your life? |
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Simile |
Directly compares two things through some connective. They fought like lions. Cute as a kitten. I feel happier than a bee on a spring flower field. |
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Synechdoche |
A type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole. Four wheels on fire. All these brains in the room, and no answer to the problem. |
