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30
Language - English
Undergraduate 1
12/04/2018

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Term
Parallelism
Definition
similar sentence (syntactical) structure.
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Antithesis
Definition
contrasting relationships between two ideas by putting them together.
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Hyperbaton
Definition
Putting a noun before an adjective.
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Parenthesis
Definition
inserted as an aside in the middle of a sentence using parenthesis, commas, or dashes.
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Appositive
Definition
a noun placed next to another to describe or define that noun.
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Ellipsis
Definition
omission of a word understood in context.
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Asyndeton
Definition
omitting conjunctions to ensure a list goes on even when it doesn't.
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Alliteration
Definition
the recurrence of initial consonant sounds.
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Assonance
Definition
repeating vowel sounds.
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Anaphora
Definition
the repetition of the same word(s) at the beginning of a phrase, clause, or sentence.
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Epistrophe
Definition
opposite of Anaphora.
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Epanalepsis
Definition
Repeats the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end.
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Anadiplosis
Definition
Repeats the last word at or very near the beginning of the next.
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Climax
Definition
arranging words in the order of increasing importance, weight, or emphasis.
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Antimetabole
Definition
repeated in reverse for emphasis.
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Polyptoton
Definition
words with the same root but different endings.
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Metaphor
Definition
A comparison made by referring to one thing as another.
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Simile
Definition
An explicit comparison using "like" or "as".
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Synecdoche
Definition
Naming a art from a whole
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Metonymy
Definition
Referring to a noun by naming one of its attributes.
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Puns
Definition
A play on words
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Anthimeria
Definition
Substitution of one part of a speech for another
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Periphrasis
Definition
substituting a proper name with a descriptive one.
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Personification
Definition
giving inanimate object human qualities
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Hyperbole
Definition
Rhetorical Exaggeration
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Rhetorical Question
Definition
a question with no answer
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Litotes
Definition
Deliberate understatement.
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Irony
Definition
Speaking in a way to imply the opposite of what's actually said. ; sarcasm
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
words that spell out sounds
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Oxymoron
Definition
two opposing words placed next to each other.
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