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In sentences written in active voice, the subject performs the action expressed in the verb (the subject acts). Example: The Girl went to school. |
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An Allergory is the representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form. |
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Alliteration is the repeated occurrence of a consonant sound at the beginning of several words in the same phrase. Example: Sticks and Stones |
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Allusions are an indirect reference to some piece of knowledge not actually mentioned. They usually come from a body of information that the author presumes the reader will know. Example: Someone who writes “She was another Helen,” is alluding to the proverbial beauty of Helen of Troy. |
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An Analogy draws a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect. Example: The operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain. |
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An Antagonist is a character or group of characters, or, sometimes an institution of a happening who represents the opposition against which the protagonist(s) must contend. |
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A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close. |
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| An Antithesis is a counter-proposition and denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition. |
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A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present. |
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Anecdotal evidence is an evidence, which may itself be true and verifiable, but is used to deduce a conclusion which does not follow from it. |
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Something is called archaic, if it is marked by the characteristics of an earlier period. It might have been commonly used in an earlier time but is rare in present-day usage. Examples: thou; wast |
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| An Aside is a literary device in that an actor speaks to the audience: he/she is not heard by the other characters. |
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An Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants. Example: "quite like" |
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Atmosphere is the distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing. Example: "an air of mystery" |
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The audience is a group of spectators at a public event, or the persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast. |
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| An Autobiography is the history of a person's life written or told by that person. |
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A Ballad is a narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain. |
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| Bias is a term used to describe a tendency towards a particular perspective, ideology or result. |
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| A Biography is an account of a person's life written, composed, or produced by someone else. |
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A blank verse is a verse consisting of unrhymed lines. |
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