Figures of Speech Flashcards by Joe Masterson

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Allegory

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Story with another meaning

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consents (2 or more)

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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or phrase

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Aposiopesis

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Breaking off a speech

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Apostrophe

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Talking to someone not there

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Assonance

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Repetition of a vowel sound

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Asyndeton

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Lack of a conjunction

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Chiasmus

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ABBA

Embracing/surrounding

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Ecphrasis

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Digression based on art

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Ellipsis

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Leaving out a word

Verb-to be

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Enjambment

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A keyword jammed into the next line

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Hendiadys

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Two words – one idea

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Hyperbole

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An exaggeration

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Hysteron Proteron

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Inversion of logical order

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Irony

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Opposite of what is stated or expected

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Litotes

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Double negative

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Metaphor

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Comparison without that like or as

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Metonymy

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A word for a related word

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Onomatopoeia

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Sound to sense

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Oxymoron

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Apparent contradiction

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Personification

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Human characteristics to a nonhuman

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Pleonasm

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Extra words

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Polysyndeton

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Lots of conjunctions

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Praeteritio

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Mentioning by saying you’re not going to mention

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Prolepsis

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Foreshadowing

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Prosopopoiea

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Making up a speech for someone

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Simile

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Comparison with like or as

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Synchesis

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ABAB

Interlocking

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Synecdoche

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Part for the whole

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Tmesis

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Cut a word in half

Postquam usually

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Transferred Epithet

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A word grammatically agrees with one word but logically goes with another

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Tricolon Crescens

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Group of three, each part of the group gets larger as it goes

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Zeugma

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A verb translated literally and figuratively

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Hyperbaton

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Unusual word order

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Rhetorical question

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Questions without an expected answer