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44 Cards in this Set
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Allusion
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An indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand
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Anachronism
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Ane vent, object, custom, person or thing that is out of its natural order of time.
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Analogy
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A comparison of similar things, often to explain something unfamiliar with something familiar
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Aphorism
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A teerse statement of a principal or truth; a maxim
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Apostrophe
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A rhetorical device in which the person address a dead or absent person, or an inanimate object or abstraction
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Cliche
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An expression that has been used so often it has lost its freshness
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Ephigram
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A terse, witty, pointed saying
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Euphemism
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The substitution of a mild term for one more offensive or hurtful
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Figurative language
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Languge that contains figures of speech such as metaphor simile, personification, ect
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration for the sake of emphasis in a figure of speech not meant litereally
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Kenning
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A metaphoric compound word or phrase used as a synonym for a common noun
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Litotes
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A figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by saying its opposite, usually with an effect of understatement
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Malapropism
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The comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound, but quite different in meaning
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Metaphor
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the most important and widespread figure of speech in which one thing, idea, or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, idea, or action, so as to suggest some common quality shared by the two
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Extended Metaphor
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An idea sustained throughout the work
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Dead Metaphor
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One taht has been used so much it has lost its figurative meaning and is taken literally
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Mixed Metaphor
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A combination of two or more inconsistent metaphors ina single expression
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Metonymy
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A figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea.
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Onomatopoeia
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the use of words that seem to imitate the sounds they refer to
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Oxymoron
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A figure of speech in which 2 contradictory terms are combined in a single expression
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Personification
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The technique by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate objects are referred to as if they were human
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Proverb
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A short saying that expresses some commonplace truth or bit of folk wisdom
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Pun
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A form of wit involving a play on a word with two or more meanings
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Simile
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A less direct metaphor
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Syllogism
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TWo premise and a conclusion
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Synaestheia
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a despriction of one kind of sensation in terms of another
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Synecdoche
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Figure of speech utilizes a part as representative of the whole
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Tautology
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repetition of an idea
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Understatement
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Verbal irony in whcih something is purposely represented as being far less important than it actually is
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Anaphora
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The regular repetition of the same word or phrase
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Anastrophe
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Rhetorical term for the inversion of the normal order of the parts of a sentence
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Antecedent
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Word to which a pronoun refers
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Antithesis
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Figure of speech in whichj opposing or contrasting ideas are balenced against each other using a grammtically parallel syntax
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Asyndenton
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Conjunctions are omitted, producing a face-paced and rapid prose
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Chaismus
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First clause or phrase is reversed in the second
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Clause
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Words w/ subject, verb
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Gerund
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Noun formed from a verb
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Imperative
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Command
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Inversion
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Reverse SVC
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Loose sentence
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A car bent over him just as he tied his shoelace
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Paradox
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Self-Contradictory
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Periodic sentences
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Main idea last
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Olysndenton
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Opposite of asndeton
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Rhetorical question
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no answer needed
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