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FlashCards por Olivia Gniadek, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Olivia Gniadek
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| What is an Allusion | expression designed to call something into mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. e.g. Quote |
| What is a Personal Pronoun | Contrasts to a person, gender, number or case (I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, them) |
| What is an appeal to emotion | Something that plays on your feelings when spoken or in text |
| What is an Rhetorical Question | Questions within text or speech that don't necessarily need an answer |
| What is Alliteration | Words that start with the same letters |
| What is repetition | A word that repeats itself in text or in speech |
| What is Meiosis | Understate response to something |
| What is a Litote | A statement which creates negative to creative emphases, similar to meiosis |
| What is Hyperbole | When a speaker purposely exaggerates their description |
| What is a biblical Allusion | references and elements of the bible |
| What is imagery | metaphors, similes, personification and hyperbole that draws a picture in your head |
| What is Anaphora | Use of a word referring back to a word used earlier in a text or conversation |
| What is Onomatopoeia | The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named e.g. Bang, Crash, Splat, Splash etc |
| What is Assonance | Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled). |
| What is a Paradox | A seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be true. |
| What is a Pronoun | A word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you ) |
| A Handy Guide to English Techniques |
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