Reading And Literature Flashcards

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Allegory

A

The story represent other people

Using horses or animals to represent people

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Alliteration

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The repetition of an initial consonant

Peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers

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Anthropomorphism

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Human qualities to non human things or entity’s

Beauty and the beast

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4
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Connotation

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Secondary meaning the word represents

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5
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Couplet

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Two successive poetic lines that form a single unit because they rhyme

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6
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Essay

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Brief work that gets across a point of view to persuade the reader

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7
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Figures of speech

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Not to be taken literally

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8
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Euphemism

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Figure of speech in which a term is substituted that may be offensive or cause distress

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9
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Hyperbole

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Drastic overstatement or understatement

“You are the worst person ever”

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10
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Metaphor

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Something is talked about like it’s something else

It felt like a thousand daggers splitting my head

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Mixed metaphor

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Two or more unrelated metaphors are combined

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12
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Onomatopoeia

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Buzz
Twang
Jiiii

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13
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Simile

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Compares two different things

The trees are like a maze

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