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repetition of consonant sounds at the BEGINNING of words
ex: Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck |
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| repetition of IDENTICAL consonant sounds ex: ping-pong; fulfill |
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| repetition of VOWEL sounds BETWEEN consonants ex: sweet/meet; proud/round/cloud |
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| figure of speech where one thing is referred to as another ex: the sky is a snotty handkerchief |
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| figure of speech that uses like or as ex: my face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain |
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| contradictory words ex: wise fool; pretty ugly; cold fire |
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| seems like an oxymoron but actually has a rational meaning ex: I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude |
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| ex: hiss; buzz; slam; sizzle |
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| figure of speech that is a part of something used to represent the whole ex: wheels=car |
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| almost the same as a synecdoche except it is a REFERENCE to something not a PART ex: crown=monarch |
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| appeal based on logical reasoning (facts) |
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| grammatical structure of a sentence |
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| technique of arranging words and making them similar ex: we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields |
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| deliberate exaggeration in order to creat humor or emphasis |
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| more acceptable term to say something inappropriate or uncomfortable ex: he passed away |
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| repetition of word or phrase at the BEGINNING of several sentences in a row |
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| repetition/ same as an anaphora except at the END of a sentence |
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| commas used to seperate words or phrases ex: be one of the few, the proud, the Marines |
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| uses "and" or another conjunction to seperate words or phrases WITHOUT commas |
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