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Figures Of Speech Flashcards

1
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Allegory

A

Story with another meaning

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2
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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonants

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3
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Anaphora

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Repetition of the same word or phrase

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4
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Aposiopesis

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Breaking off a speech

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5
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Apostrophe

A

Talking to someone not there

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Assonance

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Repetition of similar vowel sounds

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7
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Asyndeton

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No conjunctions

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8
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Chiasmus

A

Arrangement of words that follows pattern of ABBA

-embracing/surrounding

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Ecphrasis

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Digression based on art

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10
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Ellipsis

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Leaving out a word that would be understood (verb to be)

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11
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Enjambment

A

Key word jammed into the next line

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12
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Hendiadys

A

Two words used to express one idea

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13
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Hyperbole

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Extraordinary exaggeration

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14
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Hysteron proteron

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Inversion of logical order

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15
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Irony

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Opposite of what is stated or expected

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16
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Litotes

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Double negative

17
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Metaphor

A

Comparison not using like or as

18
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Metonymy

A

Use of one word for a related word

19
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Onomatopoeia

A

Sound to sense

20
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Oxymoron

A

Apparent contradiction

21
Q

Personification

A

Human characteristics to inanimate object

22
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Pleonasm

A

Extra words used that are unnecessary

23
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Polysyndeton

A

Lots of conjunctives

24
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Praeteritio

A

Emphasize a point by disregarding it

Mention by saying you’re not going to mention

25
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Prolepsis

A

Anticipation of a things existence (foreshadowing)

26
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Prosopopoiea

A

Making up a speech for someone absent

27
Q

Simile

A

Comparison of two things using like or as

28
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Synchesis

A

Interlocked word order ABAB

-connectal

29
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Synecdoche

A

A part of the whole

30
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Tmesis

A

Cutting a word in half and distributing it within the sentence
-usually postquam

31
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Transferred epithet

A

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

32
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Tricolon crescens (crescendo)

A

Series of three that parallel in some way

-each part of the group gets larger as it goes

33
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Zeugma

A

A verb translated figuratively and literally

34
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Hyperbaton

A

Unusual word order

35
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Rhetorical question

A

Question without expected answer

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