Devices

Question 0

Metaphor

Answer 0

Comparison without like or as

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

Everything has a literal and a symbolic meaning. Throughout the whole work

Question 2

Simile

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Comparison using like or as

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Conceit

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Comparison of 2 unlike objects

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Apostrophe

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Talking to someone who’s not physically there

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Colloquialism

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Informal speech

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Euphemism

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Replacing a bad term with one that sounds better

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Litotes

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Negative understatement

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Imagery

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Describes something using the senses

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Irony

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Expecting one thing but getting another

Saying one thing but meaning the opposite

Question 10

Synecdoche

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A part represents the whole or the whole represents the part

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Metonymy

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One thing represents another (must be closely related)

Question 12

Paradox

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Statement that conoricridicts itself but reveals the truth

Question 13

Pun

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Play on words

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Wit

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Intellectual humor

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Alliteration

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Repetition of a coincident sound

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowl sounds

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Consonance

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Repetition of stressed syllables

Question 18

Anadeplosis

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Phrase at the end of a clause or phrase at the end of one and begining of another

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Anastrophe

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Odd word order

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Epistrophe

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Repeating phrase at the end

Question 21

Polysyndonton

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Drawn out lots of conjunctions

Question 22

Asyndonton

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Drop all conjunctions to shorten it

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Chiasmus

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Flipping phrases

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Periodic sentence

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Main idea right before period

Question 25

Loose sentence

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Main idea first

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Parallelism

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Smae structure throughout

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Periphrasis

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Roundabout way of saying something

Question 28

Zeugma

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Verb with 2 direct objects that are dissimilar

Question 29

Extended metaphor

Answer 29

a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, especially a poem: Robert Frost uses two roads as an extended metaphor in “The Road Not Taken.”

Question 30

Personification

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Giving human traits to non-human things

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Climax

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a figure consisting of a series of related ideas so arranged that each surpasses the preceding in force or intensity.

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Antithesis

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the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas, as in “Give me liberty or give me death.”

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Oxymoron

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a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”

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Jargon

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the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon.

Question 35

Symbol

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something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign.

Question 36

Allusion

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Reference to something in history art or literature

Question 36

Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

Question 36

Ambiguity

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Can be interpreted 2 different ways