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Figures of Speech Flashcards

1
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Allegory

A

Story with another meaning

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consents (2 or more)

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3
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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or phrase

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4
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Aposiopesis

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Breaking off a speech

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5
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Apostrophe

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Talking to someone not there

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Assonance

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Repetition of a vowel sound

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7
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Asyndeton

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Lack of a conjunction

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8
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Chiasmus

A

ABBA

Embracing/surrounding

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Ecphrasis

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Digression based on art

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Ellipsis

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Leaving out a word

Verb-to be

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Enjambment

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A keyword jammed into the next line

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Hendiadys

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Two words – one idea

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Hyperbole

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An exaggeration

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Hysteron Proteron

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Inversion of logical order

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Irony

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Opposite of what is stated or expected

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16
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Litotes

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Double negative

17
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Metaphor

A

Comparison without that like or as

18
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Metonymy

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A word for a related word

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Onomatopoeia

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Sound to sense

20
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Oxymoron

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Apparent contradiction

21
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Personification

A

Human characteristics to a nonhuman

22
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Pleonasm

A

Extra words

23
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Polysyndeton

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Lots of conjunctions

24
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Praeteritio

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Mentioning by saying you’re not going to mention

25
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Prolepsis

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Foreshadowing

26
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Prosopopoiea

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Making up a speech for someone

27
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Simile

A

Comparison with like or as

28
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Synchesis

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ABAB

Interlocking

29
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Synecdoche

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Part for the whole

30
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Tmesis

A

Cut a word in half

Postquam usually

31
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Transferred Epithet

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A word grammatically agrees with one word but logically goes with another

32
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Tricolon Crescens

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Group of three, each part of the group gets larger as it goes

33
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Zeugma

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A verb translated literally and figuratively

34
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Hyperbaton

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Unusual word order

35
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Rhetorical question

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Questions without an expected answer

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