DWR Flashcards

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“I have not lost my rings, my purse, my gold, my gems my loss is worse. One that I have the stoutest hear must move. Mg pet my glory my little love my tiny kitten. My beloved, I lost alas three days ago.”

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Eluagy

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“The swiftest traveler is he that goes a foot.”

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Aphorism, Paradox

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“Prostitute a appeal to the Pope.”

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Irony, Ambiguity

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George is a perfect straight arrow, crew cut, hard working, and hungry for eye contact.

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Appositive Sentence

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“Jerry’s diner is not exactly in healthy happy relations of productive.”

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Understatement, Allusion to Marxism

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“In the dark blue sky you keep often through my curtains peep through I not what you are twinkle twinkle little star.”

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Personification, epistrophe

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“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

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Antithesis

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“Tonight you voted for action not politics as usual. You elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours.”

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Antithesis

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9
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Curse the blasted, jelly boned swine the sniveling dribbling dithering palsied pulses-less lot made up England today.”

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Invective

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10
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“Detroit is still hard at work on an SUV that runs on rain forest trees and panda blood.”

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Hyperbole, Metonnomy

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“Take thy face hence.”

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Sydoche

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12
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“It’s people. Soytent Green is made out of people. They’re making our food out of people.”

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Epistrophe

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“Any Army without culture is a dull witted army And a dull witted army cannot defeat the enemy.”

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Anadiplosis

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“His was a musky smell as if the source of a muddy river the Nile of the Mississippi began right in his armpits.”

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Imagery

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“I was quaking from head to food and could have hung my hat on my Wes and stuck out so far.”

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Hyperbole

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16
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They finally made peace, and Birthday cake.”

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Zeugma

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A picture of: American flag with America. Corporations as the stars.

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Symbolism