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| Conflict between expectation and reality. |
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| A contrast between what is said or written, and what is really meant. The opposite |
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| Occurs when what happens is very different from what we expected would happen. |
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| The audience knows something a character doesn't know. |
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| Creative uses of language;figures of speech |
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| Repetition of consonant sounds that are close together. (Purple people eaters). |
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| Repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together only the lonely. |
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| Words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning. |
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| An expression, idea, or clement of an artistic work which has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel. |
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| An expression, precular to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of the words. |
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| A comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than resembles. |
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| An imaginative comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing is said to be another. |
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| A play on the multiple meanings a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings. |
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| An object or animal is spoken of as if it had human feelings, thoughts, attitudes, denotation:the true meaning of a word or phrase; dictionary definition. |
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| Person, place, thing, event, that has meaning in itself, and stands for something beyond itself as well. (Bald eagle, Santa) |
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| Meaning of association or emotion suggested by a word or phrase. |
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| The true meaning of a word or phrase; dictionary. |
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| Person that's described as an animal. |
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