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Poetry Project part2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Denouement | The resolution of the conflict; the end of the story |
| Anaphora | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrase clauses or sentences. |
| Aesthetics | A set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially in art. |
| Aphorism | A brief statement of a principle. |
| Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman example: "Twinkle, twinkle, little starm How i wounder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky." |
| Aside | A dramatic convention by which an actor directly addresses the audience but it is not supposed to be heard by the other actors on the stage. |
| Asyndeton | The deletion of a conjugation from a list. |
| Chiasmus | Introducing subjects ABC and D,and speaking about them in the order D C B and A. |
| Conceit | A absurd simile or metaphor when the speaker talks about two things that totally |
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