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A List Literary Devices
A general term referring to a bro...,
List of words which embody simila...,
In greek adunaton meaning impract...
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Exam Quotes
What sexuality is sam
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B List Literary Devices
A sung poem first taking shape in...,
A movement of american writers in...,
A novel that explores the maturat...
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C List Literary Devices
A harsh discordant unpleasant sou...,
Quality of spoken text formed fro...,
A pause within a line of poetry s...
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D List Literary Devices
A stressed syllable followed by t...,
Two things split apart,
A meter in which a majority of th...
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E List Literary Devices
Writing that departs from the nar...,
A lyric poem that laments the dead,
A form of poetry that comments on...
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F List Literary Devices
A brief story with an explicit mo...,
In the plot of a story or play th...,
Poetic meters such as trochaic an...
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G and H Lists Literary Devices
Broadly the general category that...,
A movement in the 1920s and 1930s...,
Affirms our ability and responsib...
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I List Literary Devices
An unstressed syllable followed b...,
A poetic line of five iambic feet,
A concrete representation of a se...
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J, K, and L Lists Literary Devices
Placing two things side by side f...,
Having the nightmarish uncanny ch...,
A novel about an artists growth t...
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M List Literary Devices
Now extremely rare this genre of ...,
A type of drama related to traged...,
A figure of speech in which an im...
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N List Literary Devices
A story written in either prose o...,
Aka frame story plot device in wh...,
The voice and implied speaker of ...
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O List Literary Devices
An 8 line unit which may constitu...,
An 8 line stanza,
A long stately poem in stanzas of...
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P List Literary Devices
A tale told explicitly to illustr...,
A statement or situation containi...,
The repeated use of similar gramm...
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Q and R Lists Literary Devices
A four line stanza in a poem the ...,
Describing a literary technique t...,
Drama that attempts in content an...
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S List Literary Devices
Bitter or cutting speech intended...,
A literary work that uses irony t...,
The process of measuring verse of...
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T List Literary Devices
A story that narrates strange hap...,
A 3 line stanza as exemplified by...,
A 3 line stanzaic pattern with in...
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U, V, W, and Z Lists Literary Devices
The idea that a play should be li...,
The presentation or framing of so...,
A figure of speech in which what ...
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Test Terms
Composed of stylistic devices rhe...,
Composed of attitude speakers att...,
Composed of word choice language ...
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Mythological Allusions
Today one spot that is most vulne...,
Handsome young man aphrodite love...,
Anything pertaining to wind god w...
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Allusions from Literature
A self satisfied person concerned...,
Gigantic enormous on a large scal...,
To speak or behave clumsily or fa...
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Biblical Allusions
A son who brings heartache to his...,
The beginning and the end from a ...,
A brother who kills a brother fro...
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Historical Allusions
Barbarian rough leader king of hu...,
Destructively or frenetically vio...,
Undergarments for dance or active...
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A List Vocabulary
Different from the usual abnormal...,
To regard w extreme repugnance,
Reject formally solemnly upon oath
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B List Vocabulary
Failure to complete something,
Lacking originality freshness ord...,
Cause of great distress ruin
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C List Vocabulary
Harsh or discordant sound harshne...,
To persuade someone to give you s...,
The serpent entwined rod traditio...
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D List Vocabulary
A fingerprint,
A daffodil,
Scarcity that makes dear famine i...
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E List Vocabulary
A mark of identification a mark o...,
Lively boiling agitated enthusiastic,
Level in an organization a group ...
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F and G Lists Vocabulary
A fabulous euphemism for liar,
Unnaturally or artificially high ...,
Foolish or insane esp in an uncon...
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H and I Lists Vocabulary
Calm peaceful tranquil wealthy pr...,
A person who goes ahead and makes...,
To grow dull or stupid
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J, K, and L Lists Vocabulary
Jest joke mock v prank n,
Tired of something thing is this ...,
Joy of life someone who is very h...
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M List Vocabulary
Crafty schemes plots intrigues,
Greatest single work of an artist,
Act or habit of misusing words ri...
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N and O Lists Vocabulary
Person of great wealth or prominence,
The lowest point of something,
Turnip shaped
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P and Q Lists Vocabulary
Group or collection that is impre...,
Gods of particular people famous ...,
Model pattern on how something sh...
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R and S Lists Vocabulary
A person who tells anecdotes in a...,
Items that have been discarded as...,
Referring to sexual matters in an...
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T, U, and V Lists Vocabulary
Characterized by or subject to te...,
Nominal having the title but none...,
A problem situation in which ther...
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W, X, Y, and Z Lists Vocabulary
Jokester punmaker,
The old standard that is brought ...,
Separate the good from the bad
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