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| a story with a hidden or symbolic meaning |
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| the purposeful repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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| a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
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| an explanation based upon a comparison that explains or describes one subject by pointing out its similarities to another subject |
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| one of the devices of repetition , in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated for effect at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences |
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| a short, often autobiographical, narrative told to achieve a purpose such as to provide an example, an illusion, or a thematic turth |
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| a direct contrast of structurally parallel word groupings, generally for the purpose of contrast |
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| a statement of some general principle, expressed memorably by condensing much wisdom into few words |
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| a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an inanimate object or an absent person or a personified quality |
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| parallel structure in inverted/mirror form--two corresponding pairs arranged not in parallels(a-b-a-b) but in inverted order (a-b-b-a); from shape of the Greek letter chi |
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| an elaborate, complex metaphor or simile comparing two extermely dissimilar things |
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| same as loose sentence, this sentence makes complete sense if brought to a close before its actural ending. a cumulative or loose sentence begins with the main ideas and then expands on that idea with a series of details or other particulars |
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| the deliberate omission of a word or words implied by the context and by the parallel structure |
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| a sudden understanding or realization which prior to this time was not thought of or understood |
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| a device where being indirect replaces directness to avoid embarrassment or unpleasantness |
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| the use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
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| a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
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| the general name give to literary techniques that involve differences between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intention |
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| a form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite |
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| a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else |
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| a figute of speech in which the name of one oject is substituted for that of another closely associated with it |
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| the use of words that imitate sounds |
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| a two-word figure of speech that combines two opposing or contradictory ideas |
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| that quality in a real situation or in a literary work which evokes sympathy and feelings of sorrow and pity, usually indicating a helpless suffering caused by outside forces |
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| a sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements. the effect is a kind of suspense, as the reader's attention is propelled toward the end |
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| a type of fugurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
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| the repetition of conjunctions in a series of coordinate words, phrases, or clauses |
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| a figure of speech in which like, as, or than is used to make an comparison between two basically unlike subjects |
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| a construction in which one word seems to be in the same grammatical relation to two or more words but, in fact, is not |
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| a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, and a conclusion |
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| a form of metaphor in which a part of something is used to stand for the whole thing |
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| the concurrent response of two or more of the senses to the stimulation of one |
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| the physical arrangement of words in a sentence |
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| saying less than is actually meant, generally in an ironinc way |
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| a sentence consisting of two or more clauses that are parallel in structure |
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| a brief allegory that is used to teach a moral lesson |
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| statement of conclusion that, despite a seemingly valid argument based on acceptable premises behind it, leads to a conclusion that is senseless or fallacious |
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| When an object, item, word, symbol has a deeper meaning most often symbolizing something else |
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