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Chap.3:Literary Language

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Alliteration   The repetition of initial identical consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in successive or closely associated syllables, especially stressed syllables.  
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Assonance   Generally, patterning of vowel sounds without regard to consonants.  
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Apostrophe   A figure of speech in which someone, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present.  
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Connotation   The emotional implications and associations that words may carry. Meaning of word depends on usage.  
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Diction   Vocabulary which generally means words one at a time, and syntax which generally means word order  
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Dialogue   Conversation of two or more people.  
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Dialect   When the speech of two groups or of two persons representing two groups both speaking the same language exhibits very marked differences.  
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Denotation   The basic meaning of a word, independent of its emotional coloration or associations.  
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Figurative Language   Intentional departure from the normal order, construction, or meaning of words.  
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Hyperbole (Overstatement)   Exaggeration. Used to heighten effect or it may be used to humor.  
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Imagery   The collection of images in a literary work.  
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Image   Originally a sculptured, cast, or modeled representation of a person. A literal and representation of a sensory experience or of an object that can be known by one or more of the senses.  
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Metaphor   An analogy identifying the object with another and ascribing to the first object one or more of the qualities of the second.  
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Metonymy   The substitution of the name of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself.  
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Onomatopoeia   Words that by their sound suggest their meaning. "hiss" "buzz" sizzle"  
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Paradox   A statement that although seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true.  
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Personification   A figure that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human form; the representing of imaginary creatures or things as having human personalities.  
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Symbol   something is itself and also stands for something else.  
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Symbolism   the use of one object to represent or suggest another.  
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Simile   A figure in which a similarity between two objects is directly expressed  
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Synecdoche   A trope in which is a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the part.  
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Transferred epithet   An adjective used to limit a noun that it really does not logically modify.  
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Understatement   A common figure of speech in which the literal sense of what it said falls detectably short the magnitude of what is being talked about.  
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