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47 Cards in this Set
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SIMILE
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COMPARISON THAT USES LIKE OR AS
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METAPHOR
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DIRECT COMPARISON THAT DOES NOT USE LIKE OR AS
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HYPERBOLE
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EXTREME EXAGGERATION OR OVERSTATEMENT
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CONNOTATION
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THE IMPLIED MEANING OF A WORD
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METONYMY |
SUBSTITUTING ONE WORD FOR ANOTHER WORD CLOSELY ASSOCIATED TO IT
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ONOMATOPOEIA |
A WORD THAT IMITATES THE SOUND IT REPRESENTS
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SOLILOQUY
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A SPEECH MADE BY A CHARACTER IN A PLAY WHO IS TALKING TO THEMSELVES ALONE ONSTAGE IN ORDER TO LET THE AUDIENCE IN ON WHAT THEY ARE FEELING. IT IS GENERALLY MORE THAN 20 LINES
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PARONOMASIA |
A PLAY ON WORDS, A PUN |
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ALLITERATION |
THE SAME SOUND STARTS A SERIES OR WORDS (USUALLY 3 OF 5 WORDS HAVE THE SAME SOUND AT THE BEGINNING OF IT) |
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CLIMAX |
THE TURNING POINT OR THE HIGH POINT IN A STORY |
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FORESHADOWING
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THE USE OF HINTS OR CLUES TO SUGGEST WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN LATER |
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DENOTATION
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THE LITERAL MEANING OF A WORD |
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EUPHEMISM
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USING A MORE PLEASANT EXPRESSION IN PLACE OF AN UNPLEASANT OR OFFENSIVE EXPRESSION |
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PERSONIFICATION
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GIVING HUMAN QUALITIES TO ANIMALS OR OBJECTS |
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SYNECDOCHE
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USING A PART TO REPRESENT A WHOLE
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OXYMORON
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PUTTING TWO CONTRADICTORY WORDS TOGETHER
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IRONY
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AN IMPLIED DISCREPANCY BETWEEN WHAT IS SAID AND WHAT IS MEANT |
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DEUS EX MACHINAE
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THE RESOLUTION OF A PLOT THROUGH HIGHLY IMPROBABLY CHANCE OR COINCIDENCE |
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CLICHÉ |
A WORD OR PHRASE THAT HAS LOST ITS FRESHNESS DUE TO OVERUSE |
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CONSONANCE |
THE REPETITION OF CONSONANT SOUNDS, BUT NOT VOWEL SOUNDS (NOT AT THE BEGINNING OF WORDS) |
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ASSONANCE |
THE REPETITION OF VOWEL SOUNDS, BUT NOT CONSONANT SOUNDS (NOT AT THE START OF WORDS) |
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ARCHAISM |
USING AN OUTDATED WORD OR PHRASE INTENTIONALLY |
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APOSTROPHE |
when an absent person,an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed, usuallypreceded by an exclamatory O… but the O is not always REQUIRED
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ADAGE
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An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb
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VICTORIAN
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OF OR DURIING THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA |
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JACOBEAN |
OF OR DURING THE REIGN OF KING JAMES |
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ELIZABETHAN
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OF OR DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH |
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ALLEGORY |
a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in anarrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative. Characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed,or envy
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SYMBOLISM
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using an object or action that means something more than its literalmeaning
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SATIRE
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a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purposeof bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar follyor vice
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PARADOX
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a self-contradictory phrase or sentence revealing a kind of truth whichat first seems contradictory
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MOTIF |
a recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work. A dominanttheme or central idea
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JUXTAPOSITION
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a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters andtheir actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purposeof developing comparisons and contrasts
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IMAGERY
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language that evokes one or all of the five senses:seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching. |
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HAMARTIA
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the error, frailty, mistaken judgement, or misstep through which thefortunes of a tragic hero are reversed (from good to bad) ; this error is notnecessarily a flaw in character but causes the problems for the protagonist.
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CACOPHONY
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harsh, discordant sounds
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ANAPHORA |
deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs
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CATACHRESIS
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an extravagant, impliedmetaphor using words in an alien or unusual way
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ANTISTROPHE
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the repetition of the sameword or phrase at the end of successive lines or clauses.
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ANTITHESIS
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contrasting or combining twoterms, phrases, or clauses with opposed or antithetical meanings.
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CHIASMUS |
repetition of any group ofverse elements in reverse order
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SYLLEPSIS/ZEUGMA
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the use of a single word in such a way that it is syntactically related to two or more words elsewhere in the sentence, but has a different meaning in relation to each of the other words.
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PLEONASM/TAUTOLOGY |
the use of more words than areneeded to express an idea; redundancy
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PARALIPSIS |
a figure of thought where lessinformation is supplied than appears to be called for by the circumstances
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LITOTES |
understatement, especially oneexpressed by a negation of an affirmative
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PERSONA |
the speaker of a poem, adramatic character distinguished from the poet
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ELEGY |
sorrowful ormournful poem or musical composition, especially a lament for the dead. |