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30 Cards in this Set
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Anti Climax |
An arrangement of details such that the lesser appears at the point where something greater is expected. |
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Hubris |
Overweening pride or insolence that results in the misfortune of the protagonist of a tragedy. |
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Pejorative |
A word or grammatical form of expression that expresses disrespect. |
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Portmantuea
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Words formed by telescoping two words into one.
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Malapropism
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An inappropriateness of speech resulting from the use of one word for another which resembles it.
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Understatement
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The opposite of hyperbole. It's a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is.
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Anachronism
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A person, scene, event or other element that fails to correspond with the appropriate time or era.
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Parenthetical
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A comment that interrupts the immediate subject, often to qualify or explain.
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Didactic
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Form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. |
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Palindrome |
Writing that reads the same front left to right and from right to left.
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Enjambment
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The continuation of a sentence without a pause at the end of a line, couplet or stanza.
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Ambiguity |
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words in a line of poetry. |
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Elegy |
A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person.
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Paradox |
Statement which seems to contradict itself.
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Prose |
Ordinary speech or writing without metrical structure, written in a paragraph form.
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Iamb |
An iambic foot has two syllables. The first is unstressed and the second is stressed.
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Memoir |
An account of the personal experience of an author.
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Motif |
A dominant theme or central idea
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Anecdote |
A short story or joke told at the beginning of a speech to gain the audience's attention.
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Hamartia |
The error, frailty, mistaken judgement or misstep through which the fortunes of the hero of tragedy are reversed. |
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Sacred Cow |
Refers to something that can't be interfered with or harmed in anyway.
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Read the Riot act |
It is to issue a stern warning that if unacceptable behavior happens, severe consequences will happen. |
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Once in a blue moon |
Something that happens every once in a while maybe every year.
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Pearls before swine |
It is offering something precious to someone unable to appreciate the value of what they are being given.
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Crocodile Tears |
To show false sympathy for someone.
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Omne Trium Perfectum
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Everything that comes in three's is perfect.
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15 minutes of fame |
When someone receives a great deal of media alteration for something fairly trivial.
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Burning Bush |
Refers to a medium through which the voice of absolute authority speaks.
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Forty acres and a mule |
An unfulfilled promise
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Skeleton in the closet |
Unpleasant or embarrassing things about a person that he or she would prefer to keep hidden from others. |
