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10 Cards in this Set
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What is syntax?
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Choice of Phrase
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What is diction?
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Word Choice
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What is parallelism?
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In grammar, parallelism is a balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses.
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What is juxtaposition
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In linguistics and semantics, contrast is a relationship between two discourse segments.
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What is asyndeton
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stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses.
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What is antithesis?
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counter-proposition and denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition.
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What is zeugma?
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a figure of speech describing the joining of two or more parts of a sentence with a single common verb or noun.
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What is alliteration
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the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
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What is epistrophe?
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forms the counterpart to anaphora, because the repetition of the same word or words comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences:
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What is personification?
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metaphorically represents an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes
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