1-7 Flashcards
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Allegory
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A short moral story. Fairer Queen
2
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Alliteration
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Same sound at the beginning, like “ Stellar students synthesize sweet sentences.”
3
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Allusion
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A quick reference to something that your audience will have to already know in order to “get”.
4
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Analogy
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You compare two things for the purpose of explanation.
if a scientist explains that the earth’s forests function as its lungs, we understand the analogy to mean that both trees and lungs take in important elements from the air
5
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Anaphora
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When the same word or phrase is used at the beginning of a serous of sentences.
6
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Antagonist
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The bad guy. Someone who opposes someone else.
7
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Apostrophe
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Address to an absent or imaginary person. Being able to talk something abstract.
