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| Allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. |
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| Alliteration is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. |
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| Allusion is a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. |
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| Analogy is the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. The key is to ascertain the relationship between the first so you can choose the correct second pair. |
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| One who opposes and contends against another; an adversary. |
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| opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction. |
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| Apostrophe is when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed |
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| In sentences written in active voice, the subject performs the action expressed in the verb; the subject acts. |
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| A sudden descent in speaking or writing from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous or inconsequential. |
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| away from one's thought or consideration |
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| Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words. |
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| ATMOSPHERE emotional feelings inspired by a work. The term is borrowed from meteorology to describe the dominant mood of a selection as it is created by diction, dialogue, setting, and description. |
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| AUDIENCE: The person(s) reading a text, listening to a speaker, or observing a performance. |
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| AUTOBIOGRAPHY: A non-fictional account of a person's life--usually a celebrity, an important historical figure, or a writer--written by that actual person. |
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| BALLAD:a ballad is a narrative poem consisting of quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter. Common traits of the ballad are that (a) the beginning is often abrupt. |
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| BIOGRAPHY : A non-fictional account of a person's life--usually a celebrity, an important historical figure, or a writer. |
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| BLANK VERSE: Unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing the accents |
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| ANECDOTE: A short narrative account of an amusing, unusual, revealing, or interesting event. A good anecdote has a single, definite point, and the setting, dialogue, and characters are usually subordinate to the point of the story. |
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| ARCHAISM: A word, expression, spelling, or phrase that is out of date in the common speech of an era, but still deliberately used by a writer, poet, or playwright for artistic purposes |
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| BIAS: Bias occurs when an author prejudices the audience in favor of one side of an issue by not covering the topic fairly. Bias should be avoided in nonfiction writing. |
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