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| Special stress laid upon, or importance attached to, anything |
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| The act of exaggeration or overstating. |
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| Of the nature of exposition; serving to expound, set forth, or explain. |
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| A short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters. |
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| The forming of mental images, especially wondrous or strange fancies. |
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Figurative language |
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| Language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors. |
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| A device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc. |
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| An easily recognised character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author. |
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| To show or indicate beforehand; prefigure. |
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| a language designed for use in situations in which natural language is unsuitable. |
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| Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern. |
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| An extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally. |
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| The formation of mental images, figures, or likelinesses of things, or of such images. |
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Informal language |
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| The use of a "low" dialect or language in preference to a "high" one. |
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| A technique of indicating, as throughcharacter of plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated. |
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