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a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms
a symbolical narrative |
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| repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences. |
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| a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting?” |
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| a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist. |
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| the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music. |
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| the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning |
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| the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression |
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| the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break |
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| a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. |
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| excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance. |
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| an insulting or abusive word or expression |
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| an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. |
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| a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part |
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| the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined, as in “The president will put the ship of state on its feet.” |
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| a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson. |
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| a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man. |
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| the act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts |
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| a decorative design or small illustration used on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter. |
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| the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold. |
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