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Poetic Devices Flashcards

1
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Antanaclasis

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Two senses of the same word.

Example: “put out the light, and then put out the light”

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Polyptoton

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Same word used in different cases.

Example: “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”

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Auxesis

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Words in heightened climatic order

Example: “jeans that can lengthen legs, hug hips, and turn heads”

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Anadiplosis

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Starting the next line or clause with the word that ended the previous line

Example: “when I give, I give myself” “I am Sam, Sam I am”

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Epanorthosis

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Speaker corrects or comments something he/she just said

Example: maybe there is a beast, what I mean is, maybe it’s only us

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Meiosis

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Lessening, belittling order. Opposite of auxesis.

Example: I fear I am not in my perfect mind

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Olfactory

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Representation of smell

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Gustatory

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Representation of taste

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Tactile

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Representation of touch

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Kinesthetic

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Movement, physical tension

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Synecdoche

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Using a part to describe a whole

Example: gray beard to refer to old man

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12
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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Litotes

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Understatement using double negatives. Positive statement by negating the negative

“I am not unaware”

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14
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Enthymeme

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Unstated assumption in a logical argument

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Parataxis

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Phrases and clauses are placed one after another independently without coordinating or subordinating them through the use of conjunctions.

I came I saw I conquered

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Hypotaxis

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Arrangement or clauses in subordinate or dependent form

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17
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Synesthesia

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Mixture of senses

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Asyndeton

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Omit coordinating conjunctions such as “and” “but” etc

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Chiasmus

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Two phrases that are parallel but inverted to each other.

example: “do I love you because you’re beautiful, or are you beautiful because i love you?”

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20
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Metonymy

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Choose something related to an idea to represent the idea as a whole

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”

21
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Erotesis

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A rhetorical question that does not get answered

22
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Hypophora

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Asking a question and immediately answering it

23
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Polysyndeton

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Use and repeat many coordinating conjunctions

24
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Homoioteleuton

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Pattern of similar endings

Rawest, densest, muddiest

25
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Aposiopesis

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Sudden interruption, leaving a statement unfinished

26
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Anaphora

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Repetition of beginning words

27
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Epiphora

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Repetition of ending words

28
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Anastrophe

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Unusual arrangement of words for poetic or psychological effect

29
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Anacoluthon

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Ending a sentence with a different grammatical structure it begins with

30
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Alliteration

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First consonant/ letter repetition

31
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Consonance

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Repeated consonant sound within words

32
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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds within words

33
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Cacophony

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Harsh, guttural “d” “t” “k”

34
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Euphony

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Hushed, pleasing “m” “l” “s”

35
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Euphemism

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Mild or indirect word or expression

“Sanitary engineer” for garbage man or trash collector

36
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Masculine rhyme

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One syllable rhymes with one syllable of another word

37
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Feminine rhyme

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Last two syllables of a rhyming word rhyme with another word

Lighting, fighting

38
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Triple rhyme

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Last three syllables rhyme

Victorious, glorious

39
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Slant rhyme

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Not an exact rhyme

Drunkard/conquered. Justice/hostess

40
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Catachresis

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Mixed metaphor occurring in error.

“I will speak daggers to her”

41
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Elenchus

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Cross-examination; argument for the sake of an argument

42
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Paromologia

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Conceding a point in an argument in truth or to manipulate

43
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Eristic

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Seeking victory in argument regardless of the truth

44
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Dialectic

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Argument by antithesis

45
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Brachylogia

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Brevity in speech or writing

46
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Patho

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Appeal to feelings of the audience

47
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Ethos

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Establish credibility of character and win respect, admiration, and praise

48
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Logos

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Appeal to reason through logical language and argument

49
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Metalepsis

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Present effect blamed on a remote cause

“The shop is sinking: dam the forest where the mast grew!”

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