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Imagery

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Descriptive languages that re-creates sensory experience

Visual, Auditory, Olfactory, Gustatory, Tactile

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Mixed Metaphor

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Inconsistent mixture of two or more metaphors

“Lets set sail and get this show on the road”

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Dead Metaphor

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Overused metaphor

“the eye of the storm”

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Extended Metaphor

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Metaphor developed over several lines or through entirety of poem

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Synecdoche

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Figure of speech which a part of something is used to represent the whole.

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Antithesis

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figure of speech in which contrasting or opposite ideas are presented in parallel form

“I long and dread to close”

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Hyperbole

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Deliberate over exaggeration or over statement

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Personification

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figure of speech where non-human objects are given human characteristics

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Irony

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contrast between expectation and reality. Dramatic, verbal or situational Irony

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Rhetorical Question

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Questions asked for a purpose outside of information

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Oxymoron

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Figure of speech that fuses contradictory ideas

“freezing fire”

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Allusion

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a reference to a specific person, place or event that is easily recognised

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Symbol

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object or concept which represents larger ideas

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds or similar sounding words

“The birds fire-fangled feathers dangle down”

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Assonance

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Repetition of identical or similar sounding vowels

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds in stressed syllables

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Anaphora

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Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive line or sentence

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Ellipses

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…

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Parallelism

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Phrases with grammatically similar structures or repetitions to accentuate ideas

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Onomatopeia

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Sound effects

“Thump-thump-thump”

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Allegory

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a story or poem with a hidden or underlying meaning

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Ambiguity

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Deliberately suggesting conflicting and different meanings in a work

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Analogy

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Comparison of two things to show how they are alike

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Anecdote

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Brief story told to illustrate a point or reveals characteristic of individual character

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Anastrophe

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Inversion of logical sentence structure to an order which creates more emphasis

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Antimetabole

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Figure of speech where clause from first half is flipped and repeated in second half of sentence

“fair is foul and foul is fair”

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Antihero

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Main character who lacks typical main character energy

Tyler Durden???

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Anthropomorphism

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Human characteristics attributed to an animal

The tortoise and The hare

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Asyndeton

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commas with no conjunctions, basically listing but creates more emphasis

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Cacophony

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Dissonant sounds in a line or passage
k, t, b, g, d and p

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Caesura

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a pause
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for effect

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Catharsis

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Aristotle’s word to describe fear and pity of audience for downfall of hero

The entirety of Romeo and Juliet ig

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Characterisation

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process by which writer reveals personality of character

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Chiasmus

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Grammar is reversed like antimetabole but not

“I ran away quickly” - “speedily, I fled”

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Colloquialism

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casual, informal language that some may call SLANG

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External Conflict

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conflict that occurs between two or more people

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Internal Conflict

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conflict between me and thyself

fight club????

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Connotation

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blue

gives kinda sad vibes

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Crux

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The most crucial line in poem, prose or text

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Diction

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Speakers choice of words

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Enjambment

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A line or a sentence that uses carries on and on without any pauses of any kind often leading to some sort of climax or not but its there for a reason

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Elegy

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a eulogy but instead of praising and commending the person who is dead we mourn them

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Epiphany

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lightbulb moment

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Epistrophe

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Anaphora but it happens at the end of the sentence

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Euphemism

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A word or phrase that sounds less offensive or more neutral

died - passed away

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Euphony

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Opposite of Cacophony, nice to hear

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Foil

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A character who acts as contrast to another character

Scar and Mufasa
Capitalism and communism

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Hypophora

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speaker answers his own question immediately after asking it

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Idiom

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Saying that has a different figurative meaning to its literal meaning

tiny violin

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Juxtaposition

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opposing words, ideas or phrases placed next to each other

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Metonymy

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figure of speech where a place, person or thing is closely associated with something else

“the pen is mightier than the sword”

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Microcosm

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A small world that stands for the larger one

Parasite and Lord of the flies

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Motif

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reoccurring idea, image, word or phrase which appears in the text which unify the work

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Polysyndeton

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Repetition of a number of conjunctions, one after the other without use of a comma

“we have men and arms and and planes and tanks”

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Stream of consciousness

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writer allows audience to hear characters inner though to reveal deeper understanding

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Synesthesia

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Writer presents an idea which appeals to more than one sense

“From what I’ve tasted of desire”

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Invective

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A tone of speech or writing which is denunciatory, abusive or vituperative

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Jargon

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Set of words of phrases used by specific profession or trade

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