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| Extending a metaphor through an entire narrative so that objects, persons, and actions in the text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text. |
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| A character that lacks heroic attributes |
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| Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing. |
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| Dramatic device where character speaks to the audience |
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| In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables (e.g., penitence, reticence). |
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| Narrative poem that tells a story (often set to music) |
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| Addition of humorous character, to relieve tension. |
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| Commonly understood subjective cultural and/or emotional association that some word or phrase carries. |
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| Repeated consonant (pitter patter, all mammals named Sam are clammy) |
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| Final resolution of a plot |
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| Choie and use of words and phrases in speech or writing/Enunciation |
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| Saying one thing and meaning something else |
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| Scene set in a time earlier than the main story |
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| Character who contrasts with another (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight various features of that other character's personality, throwing these characteristics into sharper focus |
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| Hyperbole (also, overstatement) |
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| Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally |
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| Visually descriptive or figurative language |
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| A piece or writing expressing a character's inner thoughts. |
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| Full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unkown to the character |
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| Substitution of a name for an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. |
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| The ways in which an author tells a story |
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| Authorial voice reveals all the character's thoughts; may include commentary by the author |
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| overstatement (also, hyperbole) |
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| Expressing or stating something too strongly; exaggeration |
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| contradictory terms appear in conjunction (deafening silence) |
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| Absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true (leaving a job increases rewards he gets from it) |
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| Express the writer's meaning using different words to achieve greater clarity |
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| imitation of the style of a writer or genre with deliverate exaggeration for comic effect |
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| Aspect of someone's character that is presented to or percieved by others |
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| Play on words used ambiguously invoking two or more of a word's meanings, for comic effect |
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| Question that is not supposed to be answered (Why me?) |
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| Using writing to persuade |
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| Rhetorical techniques (also, rhetorical devices) |
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| All of these words I'm studying... |
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| Harsh or bitter irony- designed to cut or give pain |
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| Use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose or criticize people's stupidity or vices, in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. |
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| Speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, esp. by a character in a play |
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| Framework/Orginization of literature |
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| Manner of doing something |
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| Secondary plot strand that is a supporting side story for any story or the main plot |
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| Part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleaveland's baseball team") |
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| Arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language |
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| Play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, esp. one concerning the downfall of the main character |
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| Play or novel containing elements of both comedy and tragedy |
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| Presentation of something as smaller or less good or important than it actually is |
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| Narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised. (Constraints of limited knowledge) |
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| Incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident meaning of words or actions |
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