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7 Cards in this Set
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epithet |
attaching a descriptive adjective to a noun to bring a scene to like or evoke a particular idea or emotion |
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Asyndeton |
leaves out the conjections in a list or between clauses |
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Polysyndeton |
puts a conjection between every item |
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Zeugma |
a device in which unexcepted items in a sentence are linked together by a share word. |
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synecdoche |
the use of a part of someting to represent the whole |
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Metonymy |
allows you to refer to something closely related to the actural object, and use that as a way of referring to the object itself. |
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Hyperbaton |
a rhetorical device in which you arrange the words in your sentence in an unexpected order |
