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12 Cards in this Set
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Metonymy |
Greater is substituted for the lesser |
calling a king ‘England’
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Anadiplosis |
Repetition of a word at the end of a line or clause at the beginning of the following line or clause
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Anaphora |
Repetition of a word at the beginning of a succession of lines, clauses etc.
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Asyndeton |
Piling together words, phrases, clauses without conjunctions
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“Speak, strike, redress!”
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Hendiadys |
One idea is expressed through two nouns |
‘by length of time and seige’ for ‘by a long seige’
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Interrogatio |
Rhetorical question
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Parison |
A sequence of phrases with similar structure |
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Ploce [ploh-see] |
Repetition of a word in the same line or clause
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‘I am that I am’
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Tricolon |
A climax of three words or phrases
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"I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid."
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Antithesis |
Words set up in opposition to each other in nearby words or clauses |
‘I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him’ |
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Alliteration |
Repetition of consonant sounds
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Assonance |
Repetition of vowel sounds |
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