E2H Midterm Vocab Review

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"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong.

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Antithesis

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“Let the whitefolks have their money, power, segregation, sarcasm, big houses, schools, lawns, books, and mostly–mostly–let them have their whiteness.” (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)

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Polysyndeton

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Anaphora: repetition of a word or phrase at the ______ of successive phrases, clauses, or words.

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beginning

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Side by side placement of opposing concepts

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Juxtaposition

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"This is flesh I'm talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved..." (Toni Morrison, Beloved)

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Synecdoche

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NOT an allusion?

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Meredith's smile was as beautiful as my mother's.

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Enjambed line from the poem:

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I swore to him I would never, never

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"The day after Pearl Harbor, my grandfather signed up for duty, joined Patton's army, marched across Europe." This sentence includes:

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Asyndeton, parallel structure

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"marvelous new militancy" and "sweltering summer" are examples of...

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Alliteration

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To earnestly or anxiously ask someone to do something

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entreat