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| The meaning that words suggest; the overtones of words beyond their bare dictionary definition or denotations as with “leave”, “get away” “depart” “Vamoose” which have the same meaning but different connotes. Broader word referring to what the word suggests. |
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| The standard minimal meaning of words without implications and connotations. |
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| Word choice, types of words, level of language. |
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| A long narrative poem elevating character, speech and action |
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| A single mental creation to images throughout a work or works of a writer or group of writers |
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| A short concentrated poem or song usually meditative often personal and sometimes philosophical. |
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| The addressing of a discourse to a real or imagined person who is not present also a speech to an abstract. |
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| A figure of speech using “ like” with nouns and “as” with clauses |
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| Word order and sentence structure an important mark of style, a writers syntactical patterns depending on the rhetorical needs of the literary work. |
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| A specific words that stand for ideas |
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| Figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to non-human things |
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| Techniques and modes of presenting that reveal attitudes. |
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