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| an extended metaphor in which a person, abstract idea, or event stands for itself and for something else. It usually involves moral or spiritual concepts which are more significant than the actual narrative. |
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| the repetition of an initial sound in two or more words of a phrase, line, or sentence |
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| a reference, usually brief, often casual, occasionally indirect, to a person , event, or condition thought to be familiar (but sometimes actually obscure or unknown) to the reader. |
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| the relationship of similarity between two or more entities or a partial similarity on which a comparison is based. An example is the classic analogy between the heart and a pump. |
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| the character who strives against another main character |
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a brief, pithy, usually concise statement or observation of a doctrine, principle, truth, or sentiment.
An example of an aphorism is Benjamin Franklin’s
Early to bed
and early to rise,
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healthy, wealthy, and wise.
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| a non-fiction book about the authors life |
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| a short, narrative folk song that fixes on the most dramatic part of a story, moving to its conclusion by the means of dialogue and a series of incidences. |
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| a non-fiction book about someones life |
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| the creation of the image of imaginary persons in drama, narrative poetry, the novel, and the short story |
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| the moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis comes to its point of greatest intensity and is resolved. |
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| a ludicrous and amusing event or series of events designed to provide enjoyment and produce smiles or laughter usually written in a light, familiar, bantering, or satirical style |
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| suggestions and associations which surround a word as opposed to its bare, literal meaning |
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| is a conversation, or a literary work in the form of a conversation, that is often used to reveal characters and to advance the plot |
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| A short poem (usually no more than 50-60 lines, and often only a dozen lines long) written in a repeating stanzaic form, often designed to be set to music |
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| A proverb, a short, pithy statement or aphorism believed to contain wisdom or insight into human nature |
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| A comparison or analogy stated in such a way as to imply that one object is another one, figuratively speaking |
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sing a vaguely suggestive, physical object to embody a more general idea
eg using the metonym crown in reference to royalty or the entire royal family |
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| An interior monologue does not necessarily represent spoken words, but rather the internal or emotional thoughts or feelings of an individual |
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| A long, often elaborate stanzaic poem of varying line lengths and sometimes intricate rhyme schemes dealing with a serious subject matter and treating it reverently |
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| The use of sounds that are similar to the noise they represent for a rhetorical or artistic effect |
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| A story or short narrative designed to reveal allegorically some religious principle, moral lesson, psychological reality, or general truth. |
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| Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level |
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| A trope in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions. |
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| Any material that is not written in a regular meter |
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| reliance upon emotion and natural passions provided a valid and powerful means of knowing and a reliable guide to ethics and living |
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| An attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor, or a critique of what the author sees as dangerous religious, political, moral, or social standards |
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| An analogy or comparison implied by using an adverb such as like or as |
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| A monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes himself to be alone. |
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| A rhetorical trope involving a part of an object representing the whole, or the whole of an object representing a part. For instance, a writer might state, "Twenty eyes watched our every move." |
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