Vocab Flashcards
1
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Double entendre
A
Sexual connotations
2
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Onomatopoeia
A
A word that would like it describes
3
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Analogy
A
Parallel comparisons
4
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Personification
A
Ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things
5
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Metonymy
A
Symbolizing a concept with a object
6
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Synecdoche
A
Using a part of something to represent a whole
7
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Epithet
A
A brief renaming or elaboration
8
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Hyperbole
A
Exaggeration to the fullest extent
9
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Understatement
A
Downplaying reality
10
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Euphemism
A
Understating reality to sensitive listeners
11
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Paradox
A
A self contradictory statement or phrase that is nevertheless true
12
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Oxymoron
A
A contradiction in terms
13
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Parallelism
A
Consecutive phrases that use identical grammatical construction
14
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Parenthesis
A
Interruption of a sentence
15
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Exclamation
A
Emphatic interruption of a sentence
