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| A fictional work in which the characters represent the ideas or concepts |
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| A saying or truism. A memory paraphrase |
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| Literature or a work designed to instruct |
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| The repitition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words |
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| Repitition of word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row |
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| Uncertai=nty or undefiniteness, state of something being subject to more than one interpretation |
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| Asks reader to think about the correspondane or resemblence of two essentially different things |
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| A short tale meant to describe something |
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| the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers, understood by the context |
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| A word or phraase that follows a noun/pronoun for emphasis or clarity |
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| An oppisition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses |
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| When two constracting things are places next to eachother for comparision |
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| A figure of speech in which an absent person is addressed by the speaker |
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| a type of internal rhyming with vowel sounds repeated |
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| The conjunctions that would normally be connnecting phrases are ommitted |
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| The use of conjunctions (often 'and')with no commas to seperate a series of items |
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| A sentence consisting of three parts of equal length and importance |
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| Literary technique in which the author steps outside the story, speacking directly to the reader to reveal his/her attidude or purpose |
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| a sentence consisting of two or more clauses that are parrellell in structure |
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| A sentence structure in which a main clause is followed by subordinate phrases and clauses. seems run on |
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| Parallel Sentence Structure |
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| Relies on the use of syntsctical structures in order to develope an aurgument or reemphasize an idea |
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| Periodic sentence structure |
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| A sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is withheld until the end |
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| A sentence with an independent clause and at least one dependent clause |
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| A sentence of two or more coordinate independent clauses |
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| a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds |
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| A local or regional dialect expression |
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| A word's emotional content |
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| a word's dictionary defintion |
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| when the reader is aware of an inconsistentcy between a character's perception of a situtatio and the truth |
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| A mild or pleasant sounding expression that is subsituted for a harsher word |
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| a figure of speech in which an exaggeration is used to achieve emphasis |
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| mental pictures conjured by specific words and associations |
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| Variation of syntactical order |
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| When a siuation produces an outcome that is the opposite of what is expected |
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| A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |
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| An effect created by words that have sounds that reinforce their meaning |
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| combines two contradictory words in one expression. Results are often unusual or thoguht provoking |
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| A seeming contradiction that in fact reveals some truth |
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| an effort to ridicule or make fun of something through imitation. Not dat deep |
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| The character created by the voice and narration of the speaker of the text |
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| a play on words by using words that have two different meanings |
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| stated something to mean the opposite |
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| To ridicule or mock in order to reveal a meaning |
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| The speaker of a narration |
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| usinga part to represent a whole |
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| the way words are arranged in a sentence |
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| When the author assigns less significnce to an event or thing than it deserves. |
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| when all parts are related to one central iead |
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| When in a sentence there are two parts, on literal, one figurative |
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