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| reference to a literary, mythological, or historical person, place or thing |
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| the use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
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| the writer's attitude toward his/her subject |
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| the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
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| contrast between appearance and reality, usually one in opposite from what it seems |
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| central message or insight into life revealed through the literary; a lesson about life or people |
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| The return of a word, phrase, stanza form, or effect in any form of literature |
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| use of any object, person, place oraction that both has a meaning in itself; stands for something larger than itself |
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| type of character, action, or situation that occurs over and over in literature; a pattern or example that occurs in literature and life |
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| word or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, and feelings descriptively by appealing to the five senses |
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| central character, and focus of interesst who is trying to accomplish or overcome an adversity |
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| the character opposing the protagonists; can be person, idea, or force |
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| a comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words like or as |
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| a comparison of two unlike things not using like or as |
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| writing that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics |
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| when elements of a statement contradict each other |
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| a deliberate, extravagant and often outrageous exaggeration |
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| repeating identical or similar vowels in poetry in nearby words |
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| special type of alliteration in which the repeated pattern of consonants is marked by changes in the intervening vowels |
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| repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to others, or beginning several words with the same vowel sound |
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| use of sounds that are similar to the noise they represent for a rhetorical or artistic effect |
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| a question asked for effect to emphasize a point; no answer is expected |
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| repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance |
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| depicts a futuristic society where a totalitarian regime controls the heart and minds of its people |
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