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26 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
Sound device; repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sound |
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Anadiplosis |
Repetition of the last word of a line or clause to begin the next |
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Anaphora |
The repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases for rhetorical or poetic effect |
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Apostrophe |
Addressing someone or something, usually not present, as though present |
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Assonance |
Similarity or repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words, especially in a line of verse |
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Asyndeton |
The omission of conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words and phrases |
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Blank Verse |
Unrhymed iambia pentameter, metrical verse with no ending rhyme |
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Cacophony |
A combination of harsh, unpleasant sounds which create an effect of discordance. Opposite of euphony |
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Conceit |
An elaborate and often surprising comparison between two highly dissimilar things |
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Connotation |
The emotional implications that a word may carry; implied or associated meaning for a particular word |
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Consonance |
The repetition of consonant sounds with differing vowel sounds in words near each other in a line or lines of poetry |
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Crux |
The most cruial line(s) in a poem or message, the part that best shows the main point |
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Denotation |
The specific, exact meaning of a word, a dictionary definition |
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Diction |
An author's choice of words |
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Epistrophe |
Opposite of anaphora, having repeated wording at the end of the clauses |
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Euphony |
A quality of style marked by pleasing, harmonious sounds. Opposite of cacophony |
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Lyrical |
Emotional writing showing the author's ardent expression |
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Metaphor |
A figure of speech wherein a comparision is made between two unlike quantities without the use of words such as "like" or "as" |
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Meter |
Is the apttern of stressed and unstressed syllables extablished in a line of poetry. A foot is a unit of meter |
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Metonymy |
Substituting a word naming an object for another word closely associated with it |
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Polysyndeton |
The repetition of a numbner of conjunctions in close succession |
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Retorical Device |
Device used to produce effecting speaking or writing |
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Rhetorical Question |
A question solely for effect, with no answer expected |
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Simile |
A figure of speech which takes the form of a comparison between two inlike quantities for which a basis for comparison can be cound, and with the wors "like" and "as" in the comparison |
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Soliloquy |
A long speech made by a character who is alone on the stage in which he reveals his innermost thoughts and feelings |
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Synecdoche |
A figure of speech in which something stands for something else, or the whole stands for a part |
