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ELA B30 > Stylistic Devices > Flashcards

Stylistic Devices Flashcards

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Alliteration

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repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginning of words

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Consonance

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repetition of consonant sounds in words close together

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Assonance

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the repetition of the same vowel ounds in words

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Onomatopoeia

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the sounds of the word which mimics a sound to which is refers to

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Dissonance

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refers to a disruption in the harmonic sounds or rhythm (Is used to create deliberately awkward or jarring sounds within a text).

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Allusion

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A reference to a famous or historic person, place, or event within a literary text

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Anaphora

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The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines or successive clauses

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Epistrophe

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repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of lines or successive clauses

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Repetition

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the repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis or for effect

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Anticlimax

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the arrangement of words, phrases, and clauses so that there is a deliberate lapse from an ascending order of importance

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Antithesis

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involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure

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Asyndeton

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deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series ( too few coordinating conjunctions).

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Polysyndeton

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Deliberate use of too many conjunctions.

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Chiasmus

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A rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structure.

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Climax

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the arrangement of words, phrases, and clauses in an ascending order of importance.

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Dysphemism

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A statement expressed in its harshest or unpleasant manner

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Euphemism

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A figure or speech in which the harsh or unpleasant fact is so state that its harshness or unpleasantness is concealed

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Elision

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The omission of a letter or syllable as a means of contraction; most omissions are marked with an apostrophe

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Hyperbole

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A figure of speech in which extreme exaggeration is used

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Understatement

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When the severity or harshness of something is diminished

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Euphony

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A pleasing and harmonious combination of sounds –melodious (associated with Alliteration, consonance, or assonance)

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Cacophony

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a harsh discordant unpleasant combination of sounds

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Rhetorical Question

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a question that is used more as a statement for greater emphasis; no formal answer is expected

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Hypophora

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A figure of speech in which the speaker raises a question then answers it

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Imagery

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A description that appeals to the senses ( Is achieved through sensory adverbs and adjectives)

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Visual Imagery

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A description that appeals to the sense of sight

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Auditory Imagery

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A description that appeals to the sense of hearing

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Gustatory Imagery

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A description that appeals to the sense of taste

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Olfactory Imagery

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A description that appeals to the sense of smell

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Tactile Imagery

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A description that appeals to the sense of touch

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Kinesthetic Imagery

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A description that appeals to motion or movement

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Organic Imagery

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A description that appeals to an internal sensation (a tingling in an arm, a lump in my throat, etc.)

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Synesthesia

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The description of a sense impression but in terms of another seemingly inappropriate sense

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Idiom

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A words or group of words whose meaing is created from usage and not the definition of the words

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Inversion

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changing of normal word order or syntax

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Verbal Irony

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stating the opposite of what one really means

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Situational Irony

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The contrast between what we think should happen and what actually does happen

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Dramatic Irony

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A device in which a character holds a position or has an expectation reversed or fulfilled in a way that the character did not expect but that the audience or readers have anticipated because their knowledge of events or individuals is more complete than the character’s ( when the auidence/reader knows more than what the character).

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Socratic Irony

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When someone feigns ignorance in order to reveal the ignorance of someone else (reveals foolishness through pretend teachings).

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Juxaposition

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the fact of two things being seen or placed close together for comparison

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Litotes

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Understatement in which an idea is conveyed by the use of its opposite with a negative

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Metaphor

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A comparison not using like or as

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Simile

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A comparison using like or as or than

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Metonymy

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A kind of metaphor. An object is given the name of something else with which it is associated

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Synecdoche

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Referring to something by referencing a part of it or by referencing something of which it is a part (part=whole OR whole=part)

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Oxymoron

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Joining two contradictory words or phrases often but not always side by side

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Paradox

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A statement which at first seems to be self-contradictory, but which on closer inspection turns out to have a valid meaning

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Pathetic Fallacy

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Projecting the emotions of a character onto its environment. It is a form of personification that must connect to environment and then to character

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Personification

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Giving human qualities to nonhuman things

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Apostrophe

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to address a person who is not present or to address an object or concept as if it were a person

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Prosopopoeia

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give speech or a voice to nonhuman things.

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Pun

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A play on words mostly for witty or humourous effect

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Symbol

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Words or images that signify more than they literally represent. Symbols are linked to associated meanings – not just function.

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Tautology

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The redundant or pointless use of words, which effectually delivers the same meaning. Retelling the same thing by using different words or phrases

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Tmesis

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Is an insertion of a word between the parts of a word

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Zeugma

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Term for the use of a single word to denote two or more words in a sentence and is fraught with literal and metaphorical undertones (2 different definitions but one word)

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Metafication

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Literature that references itself. It can be created by addressing the reader directly (uses you or reader), or it can be created by mentioning a related action or term that connects to read/writing (sentence, symbol, forshadow, writing, etc.)

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Metaplasmus

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Intentional misspelling to a dialect or meaning (slang).

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Logos

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presuasive appeals to logic

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Pathos

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presuasive appeals to emotion

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Ethos

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Presuasive appeals to authority (relies on creditability)

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Kairos

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Presuasive appeals presented at the most opportune time and place (right place and right timing (favours)).

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Charatonym

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When the name of a character reveals elements of his or her characterization

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Foreshadow

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Subtle hints given as to future events

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How is a simile set up

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Tenor (subject) like a vechicle (description)

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How is a metaphor set up

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Tenor (Subject) is vechicle (description)

67
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What are the coordinating conjunctions

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FANBOYS (For-And-Not-But-Or-Yet-So)

ELA B30 (7 decks)

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