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| thought apart from concrete reality |
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| a statement to which it is claimed that nobody can object |
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| absurd as in the theatre of the absurd |
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| a form of drama that emphasizes the absurdity of human existance by employing disjointed, repetitious, and meaningless dialogue, purposeless, and confusing situations, and plots that lack realistic or logical development; a designation for particular plays written by a number of primarily European playwrights |
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| a poem or writing in an alphabetic script, in which the first letter, syllabol, or word of each line that spells out another message |
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| devotion to and persuit of the beautiful |
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| the suppossed error of judging or evaluating a tect in the basis of its emotional effects on a reader |
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| addresses the assumption that the meanting intended by the author of a literary work is of primary importance |
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| relating to agricultural or rural matters |
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| a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than the literal |
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| the repetition of the first consonant sound in a phrase |
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| makes a reference to a well-known person, place, or literary work |
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| a distortion of the senses, revealing how the brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation |
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| can be interpreted in many ways |
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| a statement or narrative that is expanded upon for rhetorical purposes; to add importance |
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| anything that is out of the time period it has been placed in |
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| a discrepency between the chronologial order of events and the order in which they are related to a plot |
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| "flashing back" to an earlier point in the story |
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| "flashing forward" to a moment later in the chronological sequence of events |
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| the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction gramatically complete or a sudden leap from one topic to another |
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| the point in the plot especially of a tragedy at which the protagonist recognizes his/her or some other character's true identity or discovers the nature of his situation |
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| emphasizing words by repeating them at the beginnings of neighboring clauses |
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| a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
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| a character who represents opposition to the protagonist |
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| a protagonoist whose characters ad goals are antithetical to classical heroism |
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| comic or grotesque dance presented before or between the acts of a certain composition known as a masque |
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