Running Notes 45-48 Flashcards

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Conceit

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figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are linked together with the help of similes and metaphors

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Syntactical Inversion

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Inversion, also called anastrophe, the syntactical reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence

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Apposition

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grammatical construction in which two elements are placed side by side with one element serving to identify the other in a different way

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Didactic

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frequently used for those literary text which are overloaded with information or unrealistic matter, and are marked by the omission of graceful and pleasing details

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