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| the repetition of an initial consonant sound |
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| a reference to a literary work, art, history, person, etc. |
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| the mention or use of a person or object in a context when the person or place could not have existed |
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| a direct opposite of idea |
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| a short, wise, important statement about life issues; an adage |
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| a comment in a drama or a line in a poem addressed to a person who is imagined, dead, or absent; a comment in a drama or line in a poem addressed to a quality |
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| unrhymed verse (poetry) written in iampic pentameters; most commonly associated with Shakesphere |
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| In tragedy, the fault of having too much pride and over-confidence |
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| a philosophy in which the viewer/believer sees the world the way he/she wants the world to be |
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| a word or expression not to be taken literally; the intended meaning is different from the literal meaning |
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| when a reader, character, or audience learns information that certain characters don't know |
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| when a reader or character expects one action to occur BUT an entirely different action occurs |
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| when a character/narrator says one thing but means the opposite |
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| diction used by a particular profession or group; pretentious; obscure diction |
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| an unintentional (sometimes intentional!) incorrect use of one word instead of another word that sounds similar |
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| an imaginative comparison of two UNLIKE objects without using like or as |
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| a word which imitates the noise or action |
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| one or two words that combine two seemingly contradictory statements |
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| a seemingly contradictory statement |
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| A piece of writing that imitates or mocks the style, structure, tone, etc. of another writer |
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| the giving of human qualities to non human things |
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| the main character in a play, novel, movie; the character who demonstrates the most significant change |
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| a comparison of two UNLIKE objects using like or as |
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| a concrete object that represents an abstract idea |
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