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| Active voice is a grammatical voice common in many of the world's languages. It is the unmarked voice for clauses featuring a transitive verb in nominative–accusative languages, including English and most other Indo-European languages. |
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| Allegory is a literary device in which characters or events in a literary, visual, or musical art form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts |
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| alliteration is the repetition of a particular sound in the prominent lifts (or stressed syllables) of a series of words or phrases. |
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An allusion is a figure of speech that makes a reference to, or a representation of, people, places, events, literary work, myths, or works of art, either directly or by implication. |
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| Analogy ) is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject to another particular subject or a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process. |
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| An antagonist 1] is a character, group of characters, or institution that represents the opposition against which the protagonist must contend. |
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| The apostrophe is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use theLatin alphabet or certain other alphabets. In English, it serves three purposes |
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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 |
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a language no longer used , not used in everyday life ) or used by a limited number of speakers |
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n aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience.
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| Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance[1]serves as one of the building blocks of verse. |
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| An atmosphere is a layer of gases surrounding a material body of sufficient mass[3] that is held in place by the gravity of the body |
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An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art,literature theatre, music video games, or academics in any medium. Audience members participate in different ways in different kinds of art; some events invite overt audience participation and others allowing only modest clapping and criticism and reception.
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| An autobiography is a self-written account of the life of a person. |
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| A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. |
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| In poetry, a Ballad stanza is the four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad. |
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Bias is an inclination of temperaments or outlook to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of alternatives in reference to objects, people, or groups.
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| A biography or simply bio is a detailed description or account of a person's life. |
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| Blank verse is poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
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