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48 Cards in this Set
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Imagery |
Lively descriptions that impress the images of things upon the mind. |
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Visual Imagery |
Imagery that invokes colors, shapes, or things that can be seen. |
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Auditory Imagery |
Imagery that evokes noise, music, or other sounds. |
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Tactile Imagery |
Imagery that evokes the sense of touch. |
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Olfactory Imagery |
Imagery evoking the sense of smell. |
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Gustatory Imagery |
Imagery evoking the sense of taste. |
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Figurative Language |
Deviation from what speakers of a language understand as the ordinary or standard use of words in order to achieve some special meaning or effect. |
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Apostrophe |
Addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present. |
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Metaphor |
Comparison or Analogy stated in such a way as to imply one object is another one, figurative speech. |
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Simile |
An analogy or comparison implied by using an adverbial preposition such as like or as. |
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Idiom |
Construction or expression in one language that cannot be matched or directly translated word-for-word in another language. |
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Irony |
Saying one thing and meaning another. |
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Dramatic Irony |
Where the reader knows something about the future or present that the character doesn't know. |
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Situational Irony |
Accidental events occur that seem oddly appropriate.
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Verbal Irony |
Speaker makes a statement that differs from its actual meaning. |
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Hyperbole |
Exaggeration or overstatement. |
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Oxymoron |
Using contradiction in a manner that makes sense on a deeper level. |
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Litotes |
An understatement made in the negative. |
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Sarcasm |
Saying one thing while meaning another. |
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Allusion |
A casual reference to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature. |
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Metonymy |
Using a vaguely suggestive, physical object to embody a more general idea. |
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Paradox |
Contradiction used in a way that somehow makes sense. |
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Personification |
Where non-human subjects are given human characteristics, traits, abilities, and reactions. |
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Symbol |
A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what is literal. |
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Synecodoche |
Where part of an object represents the whole or the whole of an object represents a part. |
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Colloquialism |
Word or phrase used everyday in plain and related speech, but rarely found in formal writing. |
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Connotation |
Extra tinge or taint of a meaning each word carries beyond the minimal strict definition found in dictionary. |
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Denotation |
The minimal, strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary. |
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Diction |
The choice of a particular word as opposed to others. |
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Euphemism |
Using a mild or gentle phrase instead of a blunt, embarrassing, or painful one. |
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Jargon |
Potentially confusing words and phrases used in a occupation, trade, or field of study. |
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Register |
Dialectal variation used only for a particular circumstance or for a specific purpose. |
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Tone |
Means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude or mood. |
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Parallelism |
Successive words, phrases or clauses with the same grammatical/syntactical construction |
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Triad |
Parallelism used in a series of three phrases or classes |
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Telegraphic sentence |
Straight forward, generally simple, sentence of less than 6 words |
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Periodic sentence |
A sentence in which the main independent clause or predicate comes at the end of the sentence, preceded by modifying clauses and phrases |
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Balanced structure |
a sentence with two grammatical units fairly equal in structure, length, and importance |
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loose/cumulative sentence |
A sentence in which the main independent clause comes at the beginning of the sentence accompanied by proceeding modifying phrases and clauses |
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Periphrasis/Cirucumlocation |
Use of indirect language to express an idea |
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Anaphora |
Consecutive phrases or clauses beginning with the same words |
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Chiasmus |
Rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures, aimed at making a point; the words can be the same or not |
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Antithesis |
A balanced sentence or a pair of similarly structured sentences back-to-back that directly contradict each other |
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Rhetorical Question |
An unanswered question for which the answer supports the argument |
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Rhetorical fragment |
An incomplete sentence that helps to underscore or punctuate the argument before it |
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Asyndeton |
A series in which the author uses conjunctions between each word, phrase, or clause in the series |
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Polysyndeton |
A series in which the author uses conjunctions between each word, phrase, or clause in the series |
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Inversion |
A grammatical strategy in which the sentence is somehow reversed |