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20 Cards in this Set
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Consonance |
the repetition of a consonant sound within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect |
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Metaphor |
a comparison of two unlike things, usually referring to one thing as something it is not |
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Paradox |
occurs when the elements of a statement contradict each other; often turns out to reveal a hidden truth |
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Personification |
a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or ideas human characteristics |
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Pun |
play on words that are either the same or similar in sound |
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Apostrophe |
personification in which the absent or dead are spoken in the present tense or inanimate are animate; talking to something |
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Allusion |
reference to a myth, literary, or historical person, place, or thing |
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Oxymoron |
form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into an unusual expression |
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Capping |
exchange of insults |
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malapropism |
the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar sounding one |
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invocation |
the action of invoking something in a reader; pleading to a higher power, sometimes at the beginning of literary works like plays and poems |
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aside |
an actor's speech heard by the audience but supposedly not by the cast |
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Soliloquy |
a dramatic monologue that gives the illusion of being an unspoken reflection |
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Anastrophe |
inversion of the usual syntax of words for rhetorical events |
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Assonance |
the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words |
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Prose |
an ordinary language people use in speaking or writing |
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blank verse |
unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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couplet |
two line stanza |
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anaphora |
repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases |
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sonnet |
a fourteen-line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter |
