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| Active voice is a grammatical voice common in many of the world's languages. It is the unmarked voice for clauses featuring a transitive verb in nominative–accusative languages, including English and most other Indo-European languages. |
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| As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. |
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| In language, alliteration is the repetition of a particular sound in the prominent lifts (or stressed syllables) of a series of words or phrases. |
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| An allusion is a figure of speech that makes a reference to, or a representation of, people, places, events, literary work, myths, or works of art, either directly or by implication. |
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| Analogy (from Greek ἀναλογία, analogia, "proportion"[1][2]) is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject (the target), or a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process. |
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| An antagonist (from Greek ἀνταγωνιστής - antagonistēs , "opponent, competitor, enemy, rival", from anti- "against" + agonizesthai "to contend for a prize,")[1] is a character, group of characters, or institution that represents the opposition against which the protagonist must contend. |
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| A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise. |
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| Antithesis is used when two opposites are introduced in the same sentence, for contrasting effect. |
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| The apostrophe ( ’ although often rendered as ' ) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets. In English, it serves three purposes |
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Argumentative Essay
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| Argumentative essays are most often used to address controversial issues. |
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Anecdotal Evidence
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Non-scientific observations or studies, which do not provide proof but may assist research efforts. |
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| Laguage belonging to an ealrer time and generally no longer used. |
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| To one side; out of the way. |
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| The repetition of vowel sounds. |
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| A dominant intellectual or emotional environment or attitude. |
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| The assembled spectators at a public event. |
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| An account of a persons like written by that person. |
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| A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. |
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| A four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming... |
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| Prejudice in favor of one thing or person. |
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| An account of someone being written by someone else. |
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| Verses without rhyme, especially those who use iambic pentameter. |
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