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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.
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The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.
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The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables.
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An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
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A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
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A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.
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A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise
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A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
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The superscript sign ( ' ) used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word, the possessive case, or the plurals of numbers, letters, and abbreviations.
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An essay that is written to provide a persuasive argument to an opposing audience in order to change their minds.
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non-scientific
observations or studies, which do not provide proof but may assist research efforts.
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Language belonging to an earlier time and generally no longer used
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A remark by a character in a play intended to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters.
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In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables.
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A dominant intellectual or emotional environment or attitude.
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The assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie, concert.
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An account of a person's life written by that person.
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A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
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A stanza consisting of four lines with the first and third lines unrhymed iambic tetrameters and the second and fourth lines rhymed iambic trimeters.
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Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
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An account of someone's life written by someone else.
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Unrhymed verse having a regular meter, usually of iambic pentameter
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