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| the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb; "'The boy threw the ball' uses the active voice" |
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| a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subjectunder the guise of another. |
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| the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in apt alliteration's artful aid. |
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| a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication: an allusion to Shakespeare. |
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| a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump. |
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a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary. |
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an event, conclusion, statement, etc., that is far less important, powerful, or striking than expected. |
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the direct opposite (usually fol. by of or to): Her behavior was the very antithesis of cowardly. |
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The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction.
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an essay that shows the author's assertion (opinion, theory, hypothesis) about some phenomenon or phenomena is correct or more truthful than others'
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| an informal account of evidence in the form of an anecdote or hearsay |
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| Words and phrases that were used regularly in a language, but are now less common;Such words and phrases are often used deliberately to refer to earlier times |
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| A piece of dialogue intended for the audience and supposedly not heard by the other actors on stage |
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| Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words |
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| The dominant tone or mood of a work of art |
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the spectators or listeners assembled at a performance; The readership for printed matter, as for a book |
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| The biography of a person written by that person |
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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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| aka quatrain; a four-line stanza and alternates tetrameter and trimeter and rhymes abxb. |
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an unfair act or policy stemming from prejudice
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an account of a person's life written by another person
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| verse consisting of unrhymed lines, usually of iambic pentameter. |
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