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25 Cards in this Set
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Ethos |
appeals to credibility |
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Pathos |
appeals to emotion |
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Logos |
appeals to logic |
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Assonance |
Repetition of stressed vowel sounds ex: "smoothly and soothingly the wind blew through the empty room" |
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Consonance |
Repetition of stressed consonant sounds ex:"The mass of serpents twists and slithers" |
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Anadiplosis |
Beginning a clause with the last word of the previous clause ex: "scissors cut paper, paper covers rock, rock crusher scissors" |
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Anaphora |
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses ex: "take my heart, take my soul, take my life" |
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Epistrophe |
Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses ex" and that government of the people, by the people, for the people |
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Diction |
choice and use of words or phrases |
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Syntax |
arrangement of words and phrases to create a well formed sentance |
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Alliteration |
repetition of sounds at the beginning of words and phrases ex" the only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta held as a votive" |
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epanalepsis |
beginning and ending a clause with the same word\ ex: "a lie begets a lie" |
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chiamus |
2 corresponding pairs of words arranged in parallel inverse order ex"fair is foul and foul is fair" |
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parallelism |
similar syntactic structure in successive phrases ex"one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" |
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antithesis |
contrasting opposing ideas in parallel syntactic structure ex: "give me liberty or give me death" |
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verbal irony |
use of words to mean something different than what the person actually means |
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situational |
differenct between what is expected to happen and what actually happens |
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dramatic |
audience is more aware of what is happening than the caracters |
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Richard (from richard iii) |
the duke of gloucester, eventually crowned king of england |
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Buckingham(from richard iii) |
richards right hand man |
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Clarence(from richard iii) |
born between Edward and Richard, Richard murders him |
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Margret(from richard iii) |
Widow of the dead king, hates richard and who he is trying to kill |
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Anne(from richard iii) |
hates richard for the death of her husband, but is persuaded to marry him |
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Circe(from the odyssey) |
transforms Odysseus’s crew into swine when he lands on her island. With Hermes’ help, Odysseus resists Circe’s powers and then becomes her lover, living in luxury at her side for a year. |
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Laertes (from the odyssey) |
Odysseus’s aging father, who resides on a farm in Ithaca. In despair and physical decline, Laertes regains his spirit when Odysseus returns |
