Definitions Flashcards

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Similie

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A comparison using like or an

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Metaphor

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A comparison it states that one object is something else

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Personification

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Giving life it human characteristics to inanimate object

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Apostrophe

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Addressing a directly inanimate object as if it were alive or if a he or she was were present

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5
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Onomatopoeia

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The sound of a word suits the meaning

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Alliteration

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Two or more consecutive words each starting with the same sound

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7
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Symbol

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When one thing has more than one meaning or represents something else

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Metonymy

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Referring to the accompaniment of a thing rather than the thing itself

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Synecdoche

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Where a part is used to represent a whole

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Rhetorical question

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Asking in such a way that the answer is obvious and doesn’t need to be answered

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Euphemism

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Calling an unpleasant thing by a pleasant name

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12
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Hyperbole

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Deliberate exaggeration

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13
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Understatement

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The deliberate down playing of some fact or opinion

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14
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Oxymoron

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Contradicting ideas used to express one meaning

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds in a line

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16
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Consonance

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repetition if consonant sounds in a line

17
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Paradox

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Apparently contradictory statement which when explained makes logical sense

18
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Pun

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A play in words

19
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Irony

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No explanation

20
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Dramatic

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Where the audience knows something a character does not