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| a brief, pithy, and often paradoxical saying |
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| a saying or statement in the title page of work, or used as a heading for a chapter or other section of work |
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| a moment of sudden revelation or insight |
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| an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasent |
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| an interjection to lend emphasis; sometimes, a profanity |
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| a brief story that leads to a moral, often usuing animals as characters |
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| a character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story |
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| a major category or type of literature |
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| intentional exagerattion to create an effect |
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| a question that raises a hypothesis, conjecture, or supposition |
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| an expression in a given language that cannot be understood from the literal meaning of the words in the expression; or, a regional speech or dialect |
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| the use of figures of speech to create vivd images that appeal to one of the senses |
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| a suggestion an author or speaker makes without stating it directly |
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| deriving general principles from particular facts of instances |
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| a conclusion one draws based on premises or evidence |
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| the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or, incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs |
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| a general statement or concept obtained by inference from specific cases |
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| A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. |
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an informal fallacy applying to inductive arguments. |
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| Departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical. |
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| A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. |
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| a character who contrasts with another character (usually the antagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of another character.[1][2] |
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| You try to convince people because you show that an action is the right thing to do. |
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| try to convince people by working up their feelings. |
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| The quality of being pleasing to the ear, esp. through a harmonious combination of words. |
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| he act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol or expression |
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| an intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack |
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