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| a reference to a person, place, event, or something else, without the author telling it. |
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| examples: talking bunny, walking sharks, the movie "Cars" |
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| a description of qualities in a person |
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| the turning point in a story |
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| man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society. |
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| the secondary meaning of a word. Ex: the connotation of "house" would be "a place of warmth", comfort, affection. |
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| lines of a verse that rhyme and are the same length |
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| a word that names something specific. Ex: "wind" is the denotation for air in motion. "poodle" is a dog breed. |
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| a special variety of a language. |
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| writing or speech that is intended to explain |
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| a short tale to teach a moral lesson |
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| an expression that uses language in a non-literal way |
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| to show or indicate beforehand |
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| the use of words to say something that is opposite of the meaning. Ex: the irony of her reply, "how nice!" when i said i have to work all weekend. |
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| something used to represent something else. |
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| ex: loving hate, cruel kindness, to make haste slowly. |
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| the representation of a thing |
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| the good guy in the story |
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| a resolve or determination |
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| the use of sarcasm in exposing |
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| two unlike things are compared |
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