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Cards (16)

  • Amalgamation
    The merging or joining of multiple things
  • Didactic
    Intended to teach a lesson, particularly regarding morality
  • Complacency
    Smug, Uncritical satisfaction of own achievements
  • Complicit
    Involved in unlawful or morally wrong activity
  • Asyndeton
    Conjunctions are omitted; focus on successive statements
  • Consonance
    Similar consonant sounds within a sentence
  • Epistrophe
    Opposite of anaphora, repeated phrases at the end of phrases/sentences
  • Anaphora
    Repeating group of words at the start of successive phrases/sentences
  • Euphemism
    Figure of speech to 'sugar-coat'
  • Idiom
    An expression different to its literal meaning
  • Bandwagon effect

    Propaganda technique implying you should do something because 'everyone' is doing it
  • Dissonance
    Lack of agreement or harmony between people or things
  • Impertinent

    Ill-mannered / insolent
  • Superfluous
    Unnecessary / more than enough
  • Subjugation
    To forcibly impose obedience
  • Superlative
    The 'highest' example of something e.g. the most, the best, etc.