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| the practice of beginning several consecutive or "neighboring words" with the same sounds. |
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| a reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing. |
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| a direct juxtaposition of structurally parallel words, phrases, or clauses for the purpose of contrast |
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| a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and the inanimate, as if animate. |
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| is the repetition of accented vowel sounds in a series of words. |
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| the repetition of accented vowel sounds in a series of words |
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| are the facts revealed by the author or speaker that support that attitude or tone in a piece of poetry or prose |
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| word choice intended to convey a certain effect. use specific words to convey a specific meaning. |
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| words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else. they always involve some sort imaginative comparison between seemingly UNLIKE things. Not meant to be taken literally, figurative language is used to produce images in a reader's mind and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways |
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| the use of a scene or episode that interrupts the chronological action of a work to show a previous event |
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| the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action |
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| a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration. |
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| is the use of words or phrases by a writer to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the reader's senses |
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| a comparison of two unlike things not using "like" or "as" such as "time is money." |
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| the atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work. |
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| is that atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work |
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| a circumstance or set of circumstances that prompts a character to act in a certain way or that determines the outcome of a situation or work |
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| a circumstance or set of circumstances that prompts a character to act in a certain way or that determines the outcome of situation or work |
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| the telling of a story in writing or speaking |
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| is the telling of a story in writing or speaking |
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| the use of words that mimic the sounds they describe as you pronounce them like "buzz" "hiss" "bang" "clank" "pow", etc.. |
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| a form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression such as "sweet sorrow" |
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| occurs when the elements of a statement contradict each other. although the expression may appear illogical, impossible, or absurd, it turns out to have a coherent meaning that reveals a hidden truth. |
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| a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics such as "The wind cried in the dark" |
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| the sequence of events or actions in a work- this is the basic what happened |
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| the study of sound and rhythm in poetry |
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| the central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem. conversely, the antagonist is the character who stands directly opposed to the protagonist |
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| a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings |
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| a technique where the writer deliberately uses any element of language more than once for effect-words, phrases sentences, grammatical patterns, or rhythmical patterns |
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| the use of verbal irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it. |
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| the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem take place |
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| refers to a change or movement in a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader |
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| a comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of words "like" or "as." |
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| are stylistic techniques that convey meanings through sound. |
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| the framework or organization of a literary selection. |
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| the writer's characteristic manner of writing: his use of language in his/her particular manner |
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| the quality of a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events |
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| any object, person, place, or action that has both a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself: a quality, attitude, belief, or value. |
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| these are a form of metaphor. synecdoche occurs when a part of something is used to signify/represent the whole: "All hands on deck!" The whole represents the part: "The pot is boiling." Metonymy is the opposite. The name of one thing is applied to another thing with which it is closely associated: "I love Shakespeare!" I love his work not the person whom I don't know! |
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| the arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements in a sentence. variety is what I encourage you to use in your writing. |
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| the central message of a literary work |
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| is the writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject, character, or audience, and is conveyed through the author's choice of words and detail. |
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| the opposite of hyperbole. this expresses a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is |
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