Rhetorical Devices Flashcard

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What is a metaphor?

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A comparison in which something is said to figuratively be something else

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What is a hyperbole?

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An intentional exaggeration

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What is alliteration?

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Repeating the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words

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What is an analogy?

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A comparison in which something is said to figuratively be something else

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that imitates the sound it refers to

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Allusion

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The act of casually referencing something, usually a work of popular culture

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech that uses two opposite words together

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What is satire?

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Using humor to criticize public figures

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Paradox

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Making a statement that seems self-contradictory or impossible but actually makes sense

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Simile

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A comparison in which something is said to figuratively be something else