English Flashcards

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Allegory

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Hidden meaning of something

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Alliteration

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the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration), as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration), as in each to all.

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Allusion

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A passing or casual or indirect reference

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Analogy

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Similarity between two things like features

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Concrete

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Exist or real use senses

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Connotation

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Implied by literal meaning

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Denotation

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the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience.

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Diction

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Use of fancy words

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Figure of speech

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Use an example of it as a figure

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Hyperbole

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Extravagant statement to a figure of speech

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Imagery

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Images or disc river by words

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Irony

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Use of words to convey the opposite meaning

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Metaphor

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Something that is used or regard being used to represent something else

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Mood

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Distinct emotional quality

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Onomatopoeia

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Formation of a word moo meow sounds like it is

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Oxymoron

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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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Paradox

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a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

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Personification

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Adding human features to something non living

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Simile

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a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”

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Symbolism

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the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.

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Theme

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a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic:

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Pun

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the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.