Words useful in writing IB english commentaries
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| Alienation | show 🗑
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| Allegory | show 🗑
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| Bathos | show 🗑
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| show | A reference to another work
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| show | Unknown, unclear meaning
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| Ambivalence | show 🗑
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| Antithesis | show 🗑
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| show | addressing something inanimate or an off-stage character
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| show | A coming-of-age novel
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| Blank verse | show 🗑
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| show | A stop in the middle of a line of poetry
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| Caricature | show 🗑
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| show | Informal register (vocabulary)
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| Conceit | show 🗑
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| show | Where a stated fact conflicts with something said earlier
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| Connotation | show 🗑
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| show | Making the familiar seem new and strange
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| Denouement | show 🗑
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| Diction | show 🗑
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| show | An instructive tone
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| Dramatic irony | show 🗑
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| Elegy | show 🗑
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| End-stopped line | show 🗑
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| Enjambement | show 🗑
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| Epigram | show 🗑
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| Form | show 🗑
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| show | Poetry with no set meter or rhyme
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| Grain | show 🗑
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| Idyll | show 🗑
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| show | Descriptions that appeal to the senses
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| Internal rhyme | show 🗑
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| show | A gap between that is said and what is intended
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| Lyric | show 🗑
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| Mimesis | show 🗑
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| Mood | show 🗑
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| Motif | show 🗑
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| Oxymoron | show 🗑
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| show | A seemingly contradictory statement that makes sense
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| Personification | show 🗑
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| Rhythm | show 🗑
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| show | A narration technique that mimics oral narration
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| Story | show 🗑
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| Plot | show 🗑
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| show | The technique of writing to convey an attitude
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| Trochee | show 🗑
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| Subtext | show 🗑
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| show | An object that represents something of wider significance
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