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Tropes/figurative Language Flashcards

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Types of irony

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Dramatic
situational
verbal

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Kairos

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Rhetorical art of seizing the occasion

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Metonymy

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Reference to something closely related to the actual subject
Bob has a good head (brain)

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Synecdoche

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Using part of something to represent the whole

From 5000 throats there rose a lusty yell (throats=crowd)

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Apostrophe

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Direct address of a personified object or audience

Oh Christmas tree oh Christmas tree

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