Word Craft 1

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A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature, often without explicit identification; can originate in mythology, biblical references, historical events, legends, geography, or earlier literary works

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Allusion

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A comparison in which an idea or thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it; aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar

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Analogy

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The intentional repetition of beginning clauses in order to create an artistic effect

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Anaphora

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A statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner; the term is often applied to philosophical, moral, and literary principles

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Aphorism

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Using opposite phrases in close conjunction

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Antithesis

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In drama, a few words or a short passage spoken by one character to the audience while the other actors pretend they cannot hear the speaker

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Aside

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The language of a particular district, class, or group of persons; encompasses the sounds, spelling, grammar, and diction employed by a specific people

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Dialect

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The choice of a particular word as opposed to others

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Diction

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A literary device in the form of a poem, quotation or sentence usually placed at the beginning of a document or a simple piece having a few sentences but belongs to another writer

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Epigraph

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Repeating of a concluding word or word endings, more concerned with words than sounds

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Epistrophe (epiphora)

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A short poetic nickname attached to a normal name that poets use to extend a line by a few syllables

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Epithet

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Diction that involves elaborate, technical, or polysyllabic vocabulary an careful attention to the properties of grammar

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High diction

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Inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme

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Inversion

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The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side by side for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, r character development

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Juxtaposition

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Diction that involves conversational or familiar language, contractions, slang, elision, and grammatical errors designed to convey a relaxed tone

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Low diction

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Plain choice of words that is neither formal nor informal

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Neutral diction

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When the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure an length

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Parallel structure

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A monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes himself to be alone; frequently reveals a character’a innermost thoughts

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Soliloquy

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The everyday or common language of a geographic area or the native language of commoners in a country as opposed to a prestigious dead language maintained artificially in schools or texts

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Vernacular