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| A sentence whose agent is marked as grammatical subject is called an active sentence. |
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| A representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning throughconcrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subjectunder the guise of another. |
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| The commencement of two or more stressed syllables of aword group either with the same consonant sound or soundgroup (consonantal alliteration) as in from stem to stern, orwith a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable(vocalic alliteration) as in each to all. Compare consonance ( def 4a ) . |
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| The act or practice of making a casual or indirect reference tosomething; the act of alluding: The Bible is a fertile source of allusionin art. |
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| analogy (əˈnælədʒɪ) |
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Agreement or similarity, esp in a certain limited number offeatures or details |
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A person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competeswith another; opponent; adversary.
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An event, conclusion, statement, etc., that is far less important,powerful, or striking than expected.
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noun, plural an·tith·e·ses [an-tith-uh-seez] Show IPA .
1.opposition; contrast: the antithesis of right and wrong.
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the sign ('), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more lettersin a word, whether unpronounced, as in o'er for over, or pronounced,as in gov't for government;
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| The argumentative essay is a genre of writing that requires the student to investigate a topic; collect, generate, and evaluate evidence; and establish a position on the topic in a concise manner. |
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| The expression anecdotal evidence refers to evidence from anecdotes. Because of the small sample, there is a larger chance that it may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases. |
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Words and phrases that were used regularly in a language, but are now less common are archaic. Such words and phrases are often used deliberately to refer to earlier times. For instance, the pronoun 'thou', which is very rarely used nowadays is an archaism, which is sometimes used to suggest biblical language or a dialect.
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resemblance of sounds.
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1.the gaseous envelope surrounding the earth; the air.
2.this medium at a given place.
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the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewerscollectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert: Theaudience was respectful of the speaker's opinion.
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noun, plural au·to·bi·og·ra·phies.
a history of a person's life written or told by that person.
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any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental orromantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to thesame melody.
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noun Prosody .
a four-line stanza consisting of unrhymed first and third lines iniambic tetrameter and rhymed second and fourth lines in iambictrimeter, often used in ballads.
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an oblique or diagonal line of direction, especially across awoven fabric.
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noun, plural bi·og·ra·phies.
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a written account of another person's life: the biography of Byronby Marchand.
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an account in biographical form of an organization, society,theater, animal, etc.
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unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter mostfrequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.
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