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Literary Devices
CST Testing Practice
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English
9th Grade
04/20/2011

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Epithet
Definition
A term used to characterize a person or thing.
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Aside
Definition
A piece of dialogue intended for the audience and supposedly not heard by the other actors on stage, or a remark made in an undertone so as to be inaudible to others nearby
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Soliloquy
Definition
A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
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Prose
Definition
Ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure.
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Satire
Definition
. The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
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Dramatic Monologue
Definition
A poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or event.
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Novella
Definition
A short prose tale often characterized by moral teaching or satire.
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Parallelism
Definition
The quality or condition of being parallel; a parallel relationship.
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