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Allegory

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figure of speech where the meaning of a greater, often absent, concept is conveyed with the aid of a more corporeal object or idea being used as an example

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Alliteration

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a repetition of a consonant sound or specific vowel group in a sentence

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Assonance

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repetition of a specific vowel group in a sentence

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Apostrophe

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talking or making a speech to an inanimate object

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Allusion

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a figure of speech where by the author refers to a subject matter such as a place event or literary work by way of passing refernce

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Amplification

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more information added to a sentence to increase understandibility

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Analogy

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a comparison between two things typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification

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Anaphora

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repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses or sentences

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Anastrophe

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inversion of the usual order of words

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Anthropomorphism

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ascribing human for or attributes to a being or anything not human

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Antithesis

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the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposes to form a balnced contrast of ideas

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Antecedent

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a word phrase or clause usually substantive that is replaced by a person or other substitute later or earlier usually subsequent in a sentence

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Aphorism

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a terse saying or embodying a general truth or astute obsevation

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Ballad meter

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four-line stanzas (abcb) first and third line carrying four accented syllables and the second and fourth carrying three

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Blank Verse

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un-rhymed verse, especially the un-rhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic and reflective verse

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Bildungsroman

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a type of novel concerned with the education , development, and maturing of a young protagonist

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Connotation

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the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to or its explicit or primary meaning

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Convention

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a practice or device which is accepted as necessary, useful or given feature of a genre

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Dactyl

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a foot of three syllables one long followed by two short in quantitative meter or one stresses followed by two unstressed in accentual meter

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Denotation

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the explicit or direct meaning of a word or expression

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Didactic

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intended for instruction

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Digression

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a passage or section that deviates from the central theme or writing

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End-stopped

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ending at the end of a syntactic unit that is usually followed by a pause in speaking an a puncuation mark in wiritng

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Epigram

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a short often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought

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Euphemism

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the substitution of a mild indirect or vague expression for one thought to be offensive harsh or blunt

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Emulation

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effort or desire to equal or excel others

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Epithet

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any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality

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Euphony

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agreeableness of sound; pleasing effect to the ear , especially a pleasing sounding or harmonious combination or succession of words

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Free Verse

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verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern

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Grotesque

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the distortion of transgretional boundaries

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Heroic couplet

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a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter rhyming lines iambic pentameter especially one forming a rhetoric unit and written in a n elevated style.

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Hexameter

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a dactylic line of six fee, as in Greek and Latin poetry in which the first four feet are dactyls and the last is a trochee or spondee with caesura usually following the long syllable in the third foot.

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Iamb

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a foot of two syllables a short followed by a long quantitative meter or unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter

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Internal Rhyme

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a rhyme created by two or more words in the same lin e or verse

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Lyrical

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having the form and musical quality of a song and especially the character of a song like out pouring of the poets thoughts and feelings as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry

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Paradox

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a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth

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Parody

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a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of work

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Pentameter

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a verse consisting of two dactyls am another long syllable

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Rhetorical Question

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figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point

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Rhyme Royal

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a form of verse introduced by Chaucer consisting of seven line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes , the first line rhyming with the third the second with the fourth and the fifth and soxth wiht the seventh

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Soliloquy

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an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to him/herself or is disregarding of or oblivious to any hearers present

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Sonnet

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a poem properly expressive of a single complete thought idea or sentiment of 14 lines usually iambic pentameter with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes major group of 8 lines followed by 6

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Syllogism

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deductive reasoning

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Terza rima

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an Italian form of iambic verse consisting of eleven syllable lines arranged in tercets the middle line of each tercet rhyming with the first and last lines of the followin g tercet

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Tetrameter

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a line consisting of eleven syllables lines arranged in tercets the middle line of each tercet rhyming with the first and last lines of the following tercet.

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Ellipsis

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the omission form a sentence or other construction of one or more words that would complete or clarify the construction

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Imperative

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noting or pertaining to the mood of a verb used in commands , requests, etc

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Parallel Structure

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repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance

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Periodic sentence

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a sentence that by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end produced an effect of surprise

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Syntax

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the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentence in a language

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Synecdoche

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a figure of speech in which part is used for the whole or the whole for the part the specific for the general or the general for the specific

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Metononmy

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a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related or of which it is part

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Synesthesia

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artistic and poetic devices adopted by writers to present ideas characters or places to appeal to more than one of the senses

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Chiasmus

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a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases

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Polysyndeton

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the use of a number of conjunctions in close succession

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Asyndeton

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the omission of conjunctions

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Juxtaposition

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placing close together or side by side especially for comparision or contrast

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Circumlocution

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an indirect way of speaking using more word than necessary to express an idea

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Deus ex Machina

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a god introduced to a play to resolve the entanglements of the plot

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Inversion

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reversal of the usual or natural order of words

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Malapropism

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an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound

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Periphrasis

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the use of unnecessarily long or round about form of expression

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Portmanteau

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a word formed by blending sounds from two or more distinct words and combing their meanings

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Spoonerism

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transposition of initial or other sounds of words usually by accuident

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Syllepsis

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the use of a word or expression to preform two syntactic functions especially to modify two ore more words of which at least one does not agree in number case or gender

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