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| an indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place, or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand |
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| An event, object, custom, person or thing that is out of its natural order of time. A clock strikes in Julius Caesar |
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| A comparison of similar things, often to explain something unfamiliar with something familiar |
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| A terse statement of a principal or truth; a maxim |
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| A rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses ad ead or absent person, or an inanimate object or abstraction |
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