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| a story in which people, things, and events have another meaning\ |
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| a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication\ |
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| multiple meanings a literary work may communicate, especially two meanings that are incompatible\ |
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| direct address, usually to someone or something that is not present\ |
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| the implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning\ |
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| a device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression\ |
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| the dictionary meaning of a word, as opposed to connotation\ |
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| particulars considered individually and in relation to a whole\ |
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| style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words\ |
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| the use of material unrelated to the subject of a work\ |
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| a pithy saying, often using contrast; the epigram is also a verse form, usually brief and pointed. Learn what you don't know: one work of (Domitius) Marsus or learned Pedo often stretches out over a doublesided page. A work isn't long if you can't take anything out of it, but you, Cosconius, write even a couplet too long.\ |
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| a figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness\ |
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| characterized by distortions or incongruities. Induces both empathy and disgust.\ |
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| deliberate exaggeration, overstatement\ |
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| the use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas\ |
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| of, relating to, or characterized by denunciatory or abusive language\ |
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| a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated\ |
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| the special language of a profession or group; the term jargon usually has pejorative associations, with the implication that jargon is evasive, tedious, and unintelligible to outsiders\ |
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| not figurative, accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete \ |
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| Songlike; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination\ |
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| a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance\ |
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| a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part. "The white house said". When the distinction is made, it is the following: when A is used to refer to B, it is a synecdoche if A is a part of B and a metonymy if A is commonly associated with B but not a part of it.\ |
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| a combination of opposites; the union of contradictory terms\ |
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| a story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question; parables are allegorical stories\ |
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| a statement that seems to be contradicting but, in fact, is true\ |
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| a composition that imitates the style of another composition normally for comic effect\ |
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| a figurative use of language that endows the nonhuman (ideas, inanimate objects, animals, abstractions) with human characteristics\ |
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| the position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator's outlook from which the events are depicted and by the attitude toward the characters\ |
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| the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words\ |
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| a theory of writing in which the ordinary, familiar, or mundane aspects of life are represented in a straightforward or matter-of-fact manner that is presumed to reflect life as it actually is\ |
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| a quality of some fictional narratives whose word the reader can trust\ |
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| a question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply\ |
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| an artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions\ |
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| a form of irony in which apparent praise conceals another, scornful meaning\ |
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| a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit\ |
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| the locale or period in which the action of a novel, play, film, etc., takes place\ |
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| a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by |
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| a speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud\ |
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| a conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea; in literature, a stereotype could apply to the unvarying plot and characters of some works of fiction\ |
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| the relationship or organization of the component parts of a work of art or literature\ |
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| the mode expressing thought in writing or speaking by selecting and arranging words, considered with respect to clearness, effectiveness, euphony, or the like, that is characteristic of a group, period, person, personality, etc.\ |
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| a form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them. Major premise - all humans are mortal. Minor premise - Socrates is human. Conclusion - Socrates is mortal.\ |
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| a thing that is regarded as representing or standing for another\ |
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| a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it. A is commonly associated with B but not a part of it.\ |
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| a central idea in a piece of writing or other work of art\ |
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| the theme, meaning, or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support\ |
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| A particular style or manner, as of writing or speech; mood} |
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