1-10 Flashcards
1
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Consonance
A
Repetition of identical consonant sounds
2
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Caricature
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Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature
3
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Coherence
A
The “quality” of a piece of writing
4
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Aphorism
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A short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life
5
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Apostrophy
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Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person
6
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Cacophony
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Hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry
7
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Connotation
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The emotional definition given to a word
8
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Denotation
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the dictionary definition given to a word
9
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Enumeration
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Listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step
10
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Anecdote
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A short narrative of someone’s life; an experience or incident that an author shares
