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Allusion
- a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history
- Ex. He was swallowed up in the dust like Jonah
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Analogy
- an extended comparison between two things/instances/people etc. that share some similarity to make a point
- Ex. Dictionaries are like watches
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Anaphora
repetition of the same word or group of wrods at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines
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anthropomorphism
attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomenon
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aphorism
- term used to describe a principle expressed tersely in a few telling words or any general truth conveyed in a short and pithy sentence
- Ex. Children should be seen and not heard
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Apostrophe
a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply
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aside
a brief speech in which a character turns from the person being addressed to speak directly to the audience
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assonance
- the repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words
- Ex. Mad as a hatter or Time out of mind
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asyndeton
- the omission of conjunctions between clauses, often resulting in a hurried rhythm or vehement effect
- Ex. He has provided the poor with jobs, with opportunity, with self-respect.
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Bildungsroman
novel that traces the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character from childhood to maturity
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cacophony
harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds
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chiasmus
- repetition of ideas in inverted order; repetition of grammatical structures in inverted order
- Ex. But o, what damned minutes tells he o'er / Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects ye strong loves
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conceit
extended metaphor, unlike allegory, which tends to have 1 to 1 correspondences, a coneity typicall takes one subject and explore the metaphoric possibilities in the qualities associated with that subject
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connotation
what a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition; a word's overtones of meaning
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consonance
- the repetition at close intervals of hte final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words
- Ex. First and Last or Odds and Ends
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Denotation
the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word
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