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18 Cards in this Set
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-A concise statement of principles given in pointed words
-brief, definitive, personal, philosophical -can be opinionated "life is like a box of chocolates" |
Anaphora
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-Someone absent/dead/nonhuman is addressed as if they were alive and present
-presents opportunity to speak aloud -signifys personification |
Apostrophe
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-the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give feeling of balance
-parrallel phrases to sound flowy -"He promised weath and provided poverty" |
Antithesis
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-A character achieves a spiritual insight into life or into his/her circumstances
-flash of insight -God's presence -changes process of thinking |
Epiphany
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-omission of 1 or more words, still easily understood
-sometimes only poetry -keeps meter correct -quoting sources -missing words implied by context |
Ellipsis
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-Doesn't rhyme but sounds the same
-similar vowel sounds -speeds up reading |
Assonance
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-Vowels are different
-room and roam |
Consonance
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-creates sense of motion, either glide or jerky
-repetition of constant sound at beginning of words or stressed syllabules -blueblack |
Alliteration
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-Rep of opening word or phase in a series of lines
-the story of gradual...,the story of his gradual... |
Anaphora
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-exalted or glorified example
-raising a person that is dead to a rank of God-ansestor worship -Change in proper name |
Apotheosis
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-word/phrase preceding/following a name that describes character
-an important characteristic of subject -makes figurative sense but does not modify noun -"laughing happiness" |
Epithet
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="pictures" we perceive w/ eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin
-diction -rhetorical decoration |
imagery
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spoken/written communication the seeks to imiate informal speech
-"Gunna" -expressive |
Colloquialism
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Conjuctions deliberately ommitted from a series of related clauses
-speeds up "the gov for the people by the pple pt the pple" |
Asyndeton
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-more than one explanation
-does not have to be intentional -related to irony and allegory -lack of details & diction |
Ambiguity
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-Agreeable sound
-soft, grouping words together harmoniously -repetition-consonance etc -internal rhyme |
Euphony
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Harsh, unpleasant, difficult to speak aloud, mixes harsh sounds together
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Cacophany
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violent denuciation, a direct verbal assault, whether witty or not
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Invective
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