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Part I Flashcards

1
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Alliteration

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Deliberate repetition of sounds

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Anaphora

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Repetition of words or phrases

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Anastrophe

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Reversal of normal word order

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4
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Apostrophe

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Address to some person or thing not present

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5
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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel or syllable sounds in successive words

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Asyndeton

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Omission of conjunctions

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7
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Chiasmus

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Arrangement of words in an oppositional, ABBA order

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Diaeresis

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A pause between words coinciding with the end of a metrical foot

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Diastole

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Lengthening of an ordinarily short vowel

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Ellipsis

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Omission of one or more words necessary to the sense of a sentence

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Enjambement

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Delay of the final word or phrase of a sentence to the beginning of the following verse

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Hendiadys

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Use of two words connected by a conjunction instead of one modified noun

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13
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Interlocked Word Order

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Arrangement of of related pairs of words in an ABAB pattern

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14
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Irony

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The use of language with a meaning opposite of that suggested by context

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15
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Litotes

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Deliberate understatement that describes one quality by denying its opposite

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16
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Metonymy

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A type of imagery in which one word, generally a noun, is employed to suggest another with which it is closely related

17
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Polysyndeton

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Use of greater number of conjunction than usual

18
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Prolepsis

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Attribution of some characteristic to a person or thing before it is logically appropriate

19
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Synecdoche

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A type of metonymy in which a part is named in place of an entire object

20
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Systole

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Shortening of an ordinarily long vowel

21
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Tmesis

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Separation of a compound into its constituent parts

22
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Transferred Epithet

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Application of an adjective to one noun when it properly applies to another

23
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Zeugma

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Use of a single word with a pair of others when it logically applies to only one or applies to both differently

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