Figure Of Speech Flashcards

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Directly compares two things with the use of like and as

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Simile

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Rheotorical effect,directly refers to one thing by mentioning another

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Metaphor

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A thing or abstraction is represented as a person

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Personification

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Expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite typically for humorous or emphatic effect

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Irony

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Figure of speech in whuch apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

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Oxymoron

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Seemingly absurd of self-contradictory statement in logic that,superficially,cannot be true but also cannot be false

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Paradox

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Formation of word from a sound associated with what is named

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Onomatopoeia

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Conspicious repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words

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Alliteration

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Repetition of the sound of a vowel or dipthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other

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Assonance

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Used to exaggerate language to emphasize or heighten effects

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Hyperbole

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Can be used to have an amusing effect

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Hyperbole

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To use understatement to emphasize, uses no or negative

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Litotes

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Expressing a thought by denying its opposite

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Litotes

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