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| a reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
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| emphasizing words by repeating them at the beginning of neighboring clauses |
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| humorous play on two or more meanings of the same word or on two different words with the same sound |
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| an event or a detail that is inappropirate for the time period |
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| a central message or insight into life revealed through literary work |
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| contrast or discrepance between apperance and reality, or between what is expected and what actually happens |
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| a person that says one thing but means the other |
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| audience has important info that characters in a literary work dont have |
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| "word pictures" that writers create to help evoke an emotional response |
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| use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar gramatical form |
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| involves a direct contrast of structurally parallel word groupings, generally for the purpose of contrast |
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| a term denotating a part of something to refer to |
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| literature that is written in sentence or paragraph form |
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| in an speech is the feeling and emotions that accompany the words |
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| drama in which the central character or characters suffer disaster or great misfortune |
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| lenghty, uninterpreted speech addressed to other characters rather than to the audience |
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| speech which a lone character speaks to the audience and expresses his feelings or thoughts |
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| brief remark to the audience, uttered while other characters are nearby but are unable to hear |
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| meter that is made up of 5 iambic feet to a line of verse |
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| regular pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables that give a line of poetry a rythm |
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| the unit of meter within a line |
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| an unrymed iambic pentameter |
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| set of associations that occur to people when they hear a word |
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| the dictionary meaning of a word |
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| figure of speech in which 2 clauses are related to each other through a reversal od structures in order to make a larger point |
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| feeling of pity, suffering, compassion |
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| ethical, moral, spiritual |
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