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| drawing attention to something by claiming not mention it |
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| use of similar grammatical structures or word order to suggest a comparison |
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| the attribution of human feeling or motivation to a nonhuman object |
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| using more words than necessary |
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| use of human characteristics to describe animals,things or ideas |
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| a play on words that exploits the similarity in sound between two words |
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| a question that is asked not to elicit a response, but to draw attention to something |
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| simple from of verbal irony in which the speaker means to opposite of what he or she says |
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| a comparison of two unlike things by using like or as |
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| the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another |
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| a part of an entity is used to refer to the whole |
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| a category of figures of speech that extend the literal meanings of words by inviting a comparison of other words, things or ideas |
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| the use of one word in a sentence to modify two |
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| implicit reference to history,;liteature,religion,or mythology |
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| a moment of recognition or discovery, primarily in reference to Greek tragedy |
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| drop from the lofty to the trivial or sentimental |
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| a description or characterization that exaggerates or distorts a character's prominent features |
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| a sudden or improbable plot twist that brings a resolution |
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| a sudden, powerful, and often spiritual or life-changing realization |
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| an author's deliberate use of hints to give a preview of events or themes that will happen later |
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| starting a narrative in the middle of action |
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| a record of a character's thought |
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| a prayer for inspiration to a god or muse |
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| draws awarness between expectation and fufillment, between what is and what seems to be |
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| when a character or narrator does not mean what he or she says |
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| one understanding of a situation stands in sharp contrast to another |
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| a technique in which the audience knows something the characters do not |
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| the use of sentimentality, gushing emption or sensational action or plot twists to get a response |
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| the quality in a work of literature tha tevokes high emotion |
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| the use of specific types of words, phrases, or literary structures that are not common in contemporary speech or prose |
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| the liberty authors sometimes take with ordinary rules of syntax and grammer |
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| a form of wordplay that displays cleverness and often displays humor |
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| a theme, motif or symbol closely associated with a culture's consciousness |
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| a concrete object that, universally, represents something abstract |
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| language that brings to mind sense-impressions, especially via figures of speech |
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| a recurring structure, contrast, or other device that develops or informs a work's major themes |
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| a formal poem that laments the death of a friend or public figure |
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| a lengthy narrative that describes the deeds of a heroic figure, often of national or cultural importance |
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| a succinct witty statement often in verse |
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| a short prose or verse narrative, such as those by aesop, that illustrate a moral |
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| an invented narrative. does not present true events |
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| a story about a heroic figure derived from oral tradition |
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| a short poetic composition that describes the thoughts of a single speaker |
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| an autobiographical work that focuses on the author's involvement in historical events |
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| a story about the origins of a culture's beliefs and practices |
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| a narrative work that reports true events |
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| a novel set in an earlier historical period that features a plot shaped by the historical circumstances of that period |
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| a full-length fictional work that is novelistic in nature but written in a verse rather than prose |
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| a work of fiction of middle length, often divided into a few short chapters |
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| a serious lyric poem, often of significant length that usually conforms to an elaborate structure |
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| a humorous and often satrical imitation of the style or particular work from another author |
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| a celebration of the simple, rustic life of sheperds and sheperdness |
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| a lighthearted play characterized by humor and a happy ending |
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| a form of high-energy comedy that plays on confusions and deceptions between characters and features a convoluted, faced- paced plot |
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| a play that confronts a contemporary social problem with the intent of changing public opinion |
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| a serious play that ends unhappily for the protagonist |
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| a play that mixes elements of tragedy and comedy |
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| a play that mixes elements of tragedy and comedy |
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| works that express a preference for the natural over the artifical in human culture and a belief that the life of primitve cultures is preferable to modern lifestyles |
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| a work of didactic liteartures that aims to influence the reader on a specific social or political issue |
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| any composition not written in verse |
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| a poetic work that features strong rhythms but is presented on the page in the form of prose |
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| a nonrealistic story in vers or prose that features idealized chracters improbable adventures and exotic settings |
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| describes the adventures of meieval knight and celbrates their strict code of honor,, loyality, and respectufl devotion to women |
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| a work that exposes to ridicule the shortcomings of individuals, institutions or society |
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| fiction that is set in an alternate reality often a tecnologically advanced future and contains fantastical elements |
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| a work of prose ficction that is much shorter than a novel and is focoused on a single event |
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| a particulary compresses and truncateds short story |
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| a speech by a lone character not to other characters |
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| teh repetition of isimilar constants a t the beginning of words |
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| a breaking off of speech, usually because of rising emotion or enlightment |
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| an object, figure, or character that is used to repersent an abstract idea or concept in a work |
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| a fundamental and universal ides explored ina literay work |
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| the central argument that an author makes in a work |
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| the general atmosphere created in a story, or the narrator's attitude toward the story or reader |
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| a narrative in which literal meaning corrdesponds clearly and directly to symbolic meaning |
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| a concise expression of insight or wisdom |
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| a non fiction account of a person's life written by that person |
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| a folk song telling a story or legend in simple language |
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| a nonfiction account of a person's life |
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| disturbign or serious material presented in a comical way |
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| a humorous imitation of a serious work o fliterature |
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| an autobiographichal poetic gene in which the poet discusses intensely personal subject matter |
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| liteature intedned to instruct or educate |
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| A SHORT POETIC EXPERSSION OF GRIEF |
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| a composition that is meant to be performed |
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| when a character speaks to the other characters in a play |
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| agenere of fiction that presents an imagine future society that puports to be perfect, butis horrifically inuman |
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| a formal poem that laments the death of a friend or public figure |
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| a direct address to an absent or deaad person, or to an object, quality or idea |
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| the repetion of similar vowel sounds in a sequence of nearby words |
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| the class of discordant or harsh sounds within a sentence or phrase |
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| two phrases in which the syntax is the same, but the placement of words is reversed |
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| an expression that has been used so frequently that it has lost it experessive power |
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| an informal expression or slang especially in formal writing |
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| an elaborate parallel between two seemingly dissimilar object or ideas. An extended metaphor |
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| an adjective or phrase that describes a prominent features of a person or thing |
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| the use of ecorous language to expresss vulgar or unpleasent idead |
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| apleasing arragement of sound |
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| an excessive overstatement or conscious exxagerations of fact |
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| a common espression that has acquired a meaning that differs from its literal meaning |
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| a form of understatement in which a statement is affirmed by its negative opposite. ex: he is not friendly |
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| intentional understatement |
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| combination of metaphors that produces a confused or contradictory image |
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| the substitution of one term for another that generally is associated with it |
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| the use of words that sound like the thing they refer to |
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| association of two contrary terms |
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| statment that seems absurb or even contradictory ion its face , but often express a deeper truth |
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