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Example From Lit Flashcards

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Euphemism

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Ruddy

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Irony

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No longer look through the eyes of the dead

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Metaphor

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Robert you are a steer

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Persontifcation

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The hawk swoops by and accuses me

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Prolepsis

A

Oh what rot

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Paradox

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Play marches not only for victors , but for slain

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Anaphora

A

Have you reckoned with a thousand acres, have you reckoned with the earth

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Asyndeton

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What is commonest, nearest, cheapest, easiest.

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Alliteration

A

The chauffeur came out

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Hyperbole

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It’s enough to make a man join the clan

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Oxymoron

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Grinning corpse

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Onomatopoeia

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He was breathing very rhythmically with long rattling gasps

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