Quiz 3 Flashcards
1
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Apostrophe
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A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction
2
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Asyndeton
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Consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses.
Ex: he received medals, honors, treasures, titles, fame.
3
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Atmosphere
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The emotional mood created by the entirety of literary work, established partly by setting and choice of objects
4
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Chiasmus
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A figure of speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of analogous words
5
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Clause
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A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and verb.
Independent: expresses complete thought
Dependent: cannot stand alone
