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Allit

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Allusion

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A reference to another piece of work, person, or event

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Anaphora

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A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word is repeated in successive lines , clauses, or sentence

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Antimetabole

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Repetition of words in the reverse order

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Antithesis

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Balancing words or phrases or ideas that are strongly contrasted often by the means of a grammatical structure

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AD

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Old fashioned words

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CS

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A sentence in which the main indépendant clause is elaborated by the successsive addition of modifying clauses or phrases

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Asy

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,,, and not ,, and ,

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Diction

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WORD CHOICES

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Horative sentence

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Sentence that’s exhorts adivises calls to action

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IS

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A sentence that requests or commands

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Inversion

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The reversal of the normal word order in a s or p

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Jux

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Placement of two things together closely to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

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Meta

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Figure of speech comparing two different things

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Oxy

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A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms ina brief p

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ll

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A literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntax iCal structure

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PS

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A s that presents its central meaning in the main clauses at the end

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Personification

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When objects or animals a given humans thoughts feelings or attitudes

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RQ

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Not meant answering

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S’y douche

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Using one part of an object to represent the entire object

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Syntax

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Language rules that govern how words can be combined to form meaningful phrases + s

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Zeugma

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Single verb to refer to two different objects