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12 Cards in this Set
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Invective |
An emotionally violent |
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Irony/ironic |
The contrast between what is stated explicity |
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Litotes |
A form of understatement |
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Loose Sentence/non-periodic sentence |
A type of sentence in which main idea comes first |
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Metaphor |
A figure of speech using implied comparison |
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Metonymy |
A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted |
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Mood |
Prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work |
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Narrative |
Telling of a story |
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Onomatopoeia |
A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated |
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Oxymoron |
A figure of speech wherein the author groups |
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Paradox |
A statement that appears to be self-contradictory |
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Parallelism |
Grammatical framing of words,phrases,sentences or paragraphs |
