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| the quality or state of being uncertain especially in meaning |
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| a short informal reference to a famous person or evet |
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| compares two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how he idea or object is similar to some familiar one |
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| is the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences commonly in conjunction with climax and with parallellism. |
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| establishes a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure |
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| interrupts the discussion or discourse and addresses directly a person or personified thing, either present or absent |
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| a feeling or emotion toward a fact or state |
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| extended treatment of or attention to particular items |
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| choice of words especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness |
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| the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or insitution |
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| the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasent |
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| a type of language that varies from the normas of literal language, in which words mean exactly what they say |
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| an example of figurative language that states something that is not literally true in order to create an effect |
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| the counterpart of understatement, deliberately exaggerates conditions for emphasis or effect |
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| figurative language, mental images |
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| compares two different things by speaking of one in terms of the other. Unlike a simile or analogy, metaphor asserts that one thing is another thing, not that one is like another |
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| the atmosphere or feeling created by a literary work, partly by a description of the objects or by the style of the descriptions |
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| the order in which basic narrative plot elements are arranged |
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| an administrative and functional structure |
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| is a paradox reduced to two words, usually in an adjetive-noun or adverb-adjective relationship, and is used for effect, complexity, emphasis, or wit. |
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| a situation or a statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not |
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| an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
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| the interrelation in which a subject or its parts are mentally viewed |
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| a way the events of a story are conveyed to the reader, it is the "vantage point" from which the narrative is passed from author to the reader |
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| the act or an instance or repeating or being repeated |
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| differes from hypophora in that it is not answerwed by the writer, because its answer is obvious or obviously desired, and usually just a yes or no. It is used for effect, emphasis, or porvocation, or for drawing a conclusionary statement from the facts at hand. |
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| the overall effect of how words and phrases are placed |
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| a comparision between two different things that resemble each other in at least one way |
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| the way in which linguistic element (as words) are put together to form constituents (as phrases or clauses) |
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| expresses the author's attitude toward his or her subject |
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| a statement which lessens or minimizes the importance or what is meant |
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| a literary term referring to how a person, situation, statement, or circumstance is not as it would actually seem. Many times it is the exact opposite or what it appears to be. |
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| a narrator who knows everything about all the characters is all knowing |
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| limited omniscient point of view |
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| a narrator whose knowledge is limited to one character, either major or minor |
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| first-person point of view |
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| the author tells the story from their personal perspective using "I" |
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| figures of speech employed for rhetorical effect |
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| a piece of literature designed to ridicule the subject of the work |
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| a narrative that serves as an extended metaphor |
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| an association that comes along with a particular word |
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| the exact meaning of a word, without the feelings or suggestions that the word may imply |
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| a short poem or verse that seeks to ridicule a thought or event, usually with witticism or sarcasm |
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| characterized by a concern mainly with facts |
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| a brief and often simple narrative that illustrates a moral or religous lesson |
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| a literary work that imitates the style of another literary work |
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| metaphorically represents an animal or inanimate object as having human attricutes-attributes of form, character, feelings, behavior, and so on |
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| a standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents on oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgement |
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| a position of proposisiton that a person advances and offers to maintain by arguement |
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