Semester One Comp Exam
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- Allusion
- a reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event
- analogy
- a comparison of ideas or objects that are completely different but that are alike in one important way
- anecdote
- a short story used to illustrate or make a point
- antithesis
- using opposite ideas in the same thought or sentence to emphasize a point
- colloquialism
- a common word or phrase suitable for ordinary, everyday conversation but not for foraml speech or writing
- exaggeration
- an overstatement or streching of the truth to emphasize a point
- foreshadowing
- hints or clues that suggest what will happen next or later in a story
- hyperbole
- exaggeration to prove a point
- irony
- an expression in which the author says one thing but means just the opposite
- juxtaposition
- putting 2 words or ideas close together to create a contrasting of ideas or an ironic meaning
- local color
- use of details that are common in a certain place
- metaphor
- a figure of speech that compares 2 things without using the words like or as
- overstatement
- an exaggeration or streching of the truth
- oxymoron
- a technique in which 2 words with opposite meanings are put together for a special effect
- paradox
- statement that is true even though it seems to be saying 2 different things