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| Appealing to the emotions and not reason or logic |
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| A proverb or short statement expressing a general truth |
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| A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. Usually moral or political. |
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| Same sound or letter at the beginning of connected words |
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| A reference without mentioning it directly |
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| Uncertainty of meaning in language |
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| A thing not appropriate to the period that it is in. |
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| Repetition of the last word of a preceding clause. |
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| A comparison between two things |
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| Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses |
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| Inverting the usual order of clauses |
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| A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person |
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| Observation that contains a general truth |
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| Exclamatory passage in a speech poem adressed to a person or thing |
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| A very typical example of a person or thing. Model. |
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| The repetition of the sound of a vowel in non rhyming stressed syllables. |
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| The absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. |
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| Language used to impress people |
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| Parody or comically exaggerated imitation of something. |
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| Unpleasantness of the sound of certain words and sentences. |
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| Conveying information about characters. |
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| Concepts are repeated in reverse order. |
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| Using more words then necessary. |
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| Elaborate metaphor. Fanciful expression. |
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Man Vs. Man
Man Vs. Nature
Man Vs. Self
Man Vs. Society
Man Vs. Destiny/Fate |
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| Compatibility between opinions or actions |
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| Circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea. |
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| The literal meaning of a word. The feeling a word invokes. |
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| An unexpected power or event saving a hopeless situation. |
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| Performed writing that offers great insight into the character's feelings, directed to an audience. |
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| Expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way. |
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| Repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses. |
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| Inscription on a tombstone. |
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| An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality of the person. |
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| A mild substitute for a harsh one. |
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| A short story with animal characters, conveying a moral. |
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| A comic dramatic work using buffoonery. |
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| Words that exaggerate or alter the usual meaning of the component words. |
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| A scene set earlier than the main story. |
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| Dark story, vampires and the like. |
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| Lengthy and aggressive speech. |
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| Tragic Flaw coming from arrogance. |
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| Visually descriptive language |
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| Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language. |
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| When the exact opposite of what you think would happen happens. |
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| Specialised words for a group. Difficult for others to understand. |
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| Placing two items close together for a contrasting effect. |
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| Two describing words that go in place of a name. |
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| Criticise using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm. |
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| Placing a negative infront of the opposite of the statement you want to make. |
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| The customs, manner of speech, dress, typical features of a place or period. |
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| Replacing a word in with a similar-sounding one. Comical |
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| A short statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct. |
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| Dramatic piece with exaggerated characters with events intended to appeal to the emotions |
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| A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object that it can not be literally |
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| Replacing a atribute for the full item's name |
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| A lesson concerning what is right and wrong. |
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| A distinctive feature of the dominant idea |
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| A style of representation based on detailed realism. |
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| A word that imitates the sound that it describes. |
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| Normally contradictory terms combined. |
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| Simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson. |
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| A statement that despite sound reasoning from acceptable premises seems to lead to a conclusion that is contradictory. |
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| An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. |
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| Overly formal, using hard to understand words unnecessarily. |
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| The use of indirect and circumlocutory phrasing. |
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| Fiction with a rough and dishonest but appealing hero. |
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| Fitting/deserved retribution for one's actions. |
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| The narrator's position in relation to the story being told. |
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| Short saying in general use stating a general truth or piece of advice. |
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| Fictitious name used by an author. |
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| A joke using a play on words. |
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| Story told about a past event as remembered by the author. |
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| Repeating a word within a sentence or a poetic line. |
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| A question posed for its persuasive effect. |
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| The use of irony to mock or convey contempt. |
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| The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticise people's stupidity or vices. Usually political. |
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| The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. |
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| Comparing using like or as. |
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| Comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and embarrassing events. |
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| Realistic representation of everyday experience in a movie, play, or book. |
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| Speaking one's thoughts out loud in a play. |
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| Widely held but fixed and oversimplified idea of a type of person or thing. |
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| A person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow. |
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| Drawing a conclusion from two given premises. |
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| When parts are represented by the whole or vice versa. |
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| When an sense (such as a sound) is perceived by a person as a different sense (such as color) |
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| The subject of a piece of writing. |
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Tone is set forth by the author
Mood is perceived by the reader |
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| A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression. |
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| Presenting something as smaller, worse, or less important than it is. |
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| The appearance of being true or real. |
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| Quick and inventive humour. |
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| A figure of speech that applies to two others in different senses. |
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