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"She went on and on and on and on about how JFK was a great president. "
What Is A Polysyndeton?
"..."
" Dot. Dot. Dot."
What are Ellipses?
The man—he was from Ames, Iowa—arrived.
What are Dashes?
''What time do you call this?"
What is a Rhetorical Question?
"wedding ring-commitment, matrimony"
What is symbolism?
"The boy ran hurriedly"
"Hurriedly, the boy ran."
What is Syntax?
"The captain commands one hundred sails"
Captain uses sails to refer to ships
What is Synecdoche?
"When he was nearly thirteen"
From "To kill a mockinbird"
What Is Assonance?
"When it rains, it pours."
What Is juxtaposition?
"I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved?"
from "The Good-Morrow"
What Is Enjambment?
“I have a bad feeling about this”
What Is forshadowing?
"Wham" "pop" "Bloop"
What Is Onomatopoeia?
"I remember the time I was six, and mom used to cooking good spaghetti."
What Are Flashbacks?
Telling a quiet group, “don't speak all at once”
What Is Irony?
"The White, velvet couch had smooth features"
What Is Imagery?
"I wish I could just click my heels."
What Is Allusion?
"El Meson is my favorite Mexican restaurant. They have the best Sunday brunch every week."
What Is an Anecdote?
“Bill is an early bird.”
What Is a metaphor?
" It is now ten we cannot go there before early morning"
What Is a Run-on sentence?
“I'm so hungry that I could eat a horse.”
What Is A Hyperbole?
"Stars winked in the midnight sky."
What Is Personification?
"He fell down the stairs like a rain drop"
What Is Simile?
"Zie'esha"
What Is an Apostrophe?
“You only live once.”
what Is colloquialism?
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”
What is Alliteration?