College Writing Exam Review: Style Packet – Flashcards
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Synonymy
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Listing of several words or phrases of similar meaning. Creates emphasis and impact. RD
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Alliteration
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Repetition of initial consonant letters or use of similar consonant sounds in two or more nearby words within a sentence.RD
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Homeoteleuton
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Creates emphasis by using similar sounding word endings which are often arranged in a listing pattern.RD
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Climax
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Repeats key words in patterns to create emphasis.RD
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Oxymoron
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Placing words together which are actually ironic misfits, or seeming contrasts.RD
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Horismos
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Makes sure that the reader derives the meaning you intended from a word or phrase, often a metaphor. Simply defining a previously used idea or concept in your own words. RD
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Simile
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Comparison between two unlike things introduced by like or as. FS
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Metaphor
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Suggests a similarity without using like or as. FS
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Personification
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Ascribes to inanimate things, to abstract ideas, or to the lower animals, the attributes of human beings. FS
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Apostrophe
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Address to a person or persons, to the dead as if living; to abstract ideas or to inanimate objects as if they were persons. FS
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Hyperbole
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Exaggerated statement made for effort. FS
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Irony
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Saying the opposite of what is meant in a tone or manner that shows what the speaker thinks. FS
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Onomatopoeia
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Sound that is imitated makes the word. FS
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Alliteration
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Repetition of initial identical consonant sounds. FS
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Pun
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play on words based on the similarity of sound between two words with different meanings. FS
