Second Vocab Words Flashcards

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A figure of speech that replaces the name of something with a word or closely related phrase association.

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Metonymy

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The use of one word in a sentence to modify two other words

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Zeugma

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3
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Extended metaphor

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Conceit

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4
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A literary device that gives human attributes to non-human subjects

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Personification

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5
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Comparison using “like or as”

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Simile

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Comparison of two dissimilar things; an analogy

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Metaphor

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Tools that a rhetor employs to produce a rhetorical strategy

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Rhetorical device

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A figured of speech in which a part stands for the whole word

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Synecdoche

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