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16 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
Repetition of initial sounds of several words in a group (usually consonants, but can include vowels as well) |
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Consonance |
Repetition of consonant sounds, usually with differing vowels sounds near each other in the text |
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Assonance |
Repetition of vowel sounds |
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Simile |
A comparison between two unlike ideas using like or as |
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Metaphor |
A comparison between two unlike ideas, without using like or as |
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Idiom |
Word, phrase, or expression that cannot be taken literally (and is not meant to be taken literally) |
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Onomatopoeia |
A literary device where the sound of a word echoes the sound it represents |
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Repetition |
The use of any element of language, more than once |
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Understatement |
A statement which lessens or minimizes the importance of what is meant |
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Hyperbole |
An overstatement or exaggeration |
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Paradox |
A situation or a statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not |
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Personification |
Something nonhuman is given human characteristics |
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Synecdoche |
A part of something the represents the whole thing |
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Imagery |
A word or group of words which appeal to one or more of the senses (sight, taste, touch, hearing, smell) |
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Symbolism |
A device where an object represents an idea |
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Foreshadowing |
Providing hints for what is to come, and in turn, building suspense |
