Literary Terms Flashcards by Matthew Miller

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Alliteration

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Consecutive words with same beginning sound

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Anaphora

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Repetition in speech for emphasis

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Anastrophe

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Reversing word order

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Aposiopesis

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breaking off in the middle of a sentence

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Apostrophe

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addressing someone who isn’t present

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Asyndeton

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leaving out a conjunction

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Chiasmus

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repeating a phrase, but reversed

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Ellipsis

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repeating a phrase, but reversed

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Hendiadys

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connecting adjectives with and instead of modification

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Hysteron proteron

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reversing chronological order

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Litotes

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understatement through double negative

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Metaphor

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Comparison without like or as

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Metonymy

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calling something by one of its attributes

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Onomatopoeia

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Word representing a sound that sounds like it

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Oxymoron

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Contradiction

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Personification

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Giving an inanimate object human qualities

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Pleonasm

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using more words than necessary to say something

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Polysyndeton

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multiple conjunctions in a list

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Prolepsis

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speaking like a future event has happened

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Simile

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Comparison with like or as

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Synedoche

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calling something by the name of a part of it

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Tmesis

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Putting words in the middle of a compound word

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Tricolon crescens

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Three comparable, consecutive statements increasing in intensity

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Zeugma

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When a verb or adjective modifies multiple nouns