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| is a figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases, such as "wise fool," "bitter-sweet," "Pretty ugly," "Jumbo Shrimp," "Cold Fire." |
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| is the movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another. |
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| is a short tale that teaches a moral; similar to, but shorter than, an allegory. |
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| is a statement that seems to contradict itself but turns out to have a rational meaning, as in this quotation from Henry David Thoreau; "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." |
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| is the technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form. Parallel structure may be as simple as listing two or three modifiers in a row to describe the same noun or verb. |
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| is a work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating and exaggeration its elements. It can be utterly mocking or gently humorous. It depends on allusion and exaggerates and distorts the original style and content. |
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| is the aspects of a literary work elicit sorrow or pity from the audience. An appeal to emotion that can be used as a means to persuade. Over-emotionalism can be the result of an excess of this. |
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| is a term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing. It is scholarly and academic and often overly difficult and distant. |
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| is the attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or an inanimate object. |
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| is a form of argumentation, one of the four modes of discourse: language intended to convince through appeals to reason and emotion. |
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is the perspective from which a story is presented.
First Person narrator = I
Scream of Consciousness = puts reader in characters head
Omniscient = 3rd person, can see into each character's mind
Limited Omniscient = third person but only in thoughts of one character's head
Objective - 3rd person who only reports what a camera could see. No thoughts |
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| is a sentence which uses and or another conjunction to separate the items in a series. appears in form of X and Y and Z, stressing equally each member of a series. It makes the sentence slower and the items more emphatic than just X, Y, Z. |
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| is the main character of a literary work. |
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| is when a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw the attention away from the real issue. |
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| "To reduce to the absurd." This is a technique useful in creating a comic effect and is also an argumentative technique. It is considered a rhetorical fallacy because it reduces an argument to an either/or choice. |
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