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| narrative form in which characters and actions have meanings outside themselves |
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| a figure of speech which makes brief, even casual reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object to create a resonance in the reader |
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| use of language in which multiple meanings are possible |
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| use of historically inaccurate details in a text |
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| comparison of two things that are alike in some respects |
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| the process in writing wherein one examines what the writer has done to create the effects she or he has gotten in a piece of writing |
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| rhetorical arguments in which the speaker appeals to authority, emotion, or logic |
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| the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words |
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| purification or cleansing of the spirit of the viewer or reader through the emotions of pity or terror |
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| a commonplace expression that reveals the writer's lack of imagination to use fresher, more vivid language |
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| the arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance |
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| the repetition of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening vowels |
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| the reasoning process by which a conclusion is drawn from set of premises and contains no more facts in these premises |
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| use of an artificial device or contrived solution to solve a difficult situation |
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| a particular word pattern or combination of words used in a literary word to evoke a desired effect |
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| the deliberate omission of a word or words which are readily implied by the context |
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| quote set at the beginning of a literary work or at its divisions to set the tone or suggest a theme |
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| a piece of writing in praise of a deceased person |
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| the use of or appeal to moral elements of right or wrong to determine a character's actions |
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| a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing |
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| substitution of a milder or less direct expression for one that is harsh or blunt |
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| a single word or short phrase intended to emphasize surrounding words |
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| the close study and exposition of a text, paying attention to content, style, language, symbolism, and the relationships of the parts to the whole |
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| the major category into which a literary work fits (prose, poetry, drama, etc.) |
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| means "sermon", but includes any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice |
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| an overstatement characterized by exaggerated language |
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| conclusion or type of reasoning whereby observation or information about a part of a class is applied to the class as a whole |
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| the process of arriving at a conclusion from a hint, implication, or suggestion |
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| the placing of two items side by side to create a certain effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose |
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| errors in reasoning and often occur in arguments: ad hominem, arguing from analogy, begging the question, either/or reasoning, non sequitur, hasty generalization, oversimplification, post hoc ergo propter hoc |
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| the use of or appeal to reason to determine a character's actions or persuade to an argument |
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| the implicit comparison or identification or one thing with another unlike itself without the use of a verbal signal such as like or as |
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| desire to return in thought or fact to a former time |
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| a figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements |
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| a statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true |
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| putting someone else's ideas into your own words |
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| inversion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntatical flow of the sentence |
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| a satirical imitation of a work of art for purpose of ridiculing its style or subject |
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| recurrent syntatical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences equal in importance |
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| the use of or appeal to emotional or sentimental elements to determine a character's actions or persuade to an argument |
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| the voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may or may not share the values of the actual author |
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| treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by giving it humanlike qualities |
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| a character's view of the situation or events in the story |
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| information or rumor deliberately spread to help or harm a person, group, or institution |
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| the literary practice of attempting to describe life and nature without idealization and with attention to detail |
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| repeating or repeated action |
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| looking back on things past |
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| the art of using language effectively to serve the writer's purpose, originally referred to speech-making |
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| particular use of word patterns and styles used to clarify, make associations, and focus the writing in a piece of literature |
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| asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely |
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| humorous, witty criticism of people's foolish, thoughtless, or evil behavior |
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| the person-not necessarily the author- who is the voice of the poem or story |
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| a person, place, thing, event, or pattern in a literary work that designates itself and at the same time figuratively represents something else |
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| the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences |
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| the attitude a literary work takes towards its subject and theme |
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| the writer's ability to move the reader smoothly along the course of ideas |
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| deliberate expression of an idea or event as less important that it actually is or was |
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| intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights |
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