Important Terms to Know
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| show | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
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| show | repetition of the same consonant at the beginning of several words in close proximity
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| show | passing reference or indirect mention of a previously written text or historical event
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| analogy | show 🗑
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| show | the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect
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| show | a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner
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| show | a rhetorical device used by playwrights and authors whenever their characters address a character that isn’t present in the scene
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| caesura | show 🗑
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| show | an idea that is implied or suggested by a word or phrase beyond its literal meaning
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| denotation | show 🗑
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| dialect | show 🗑
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| show | a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
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| show | polite, indirect expressions that replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite, or which suggest something unpleasant
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| show | a person or thing that serves to contrast with another
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| free verse | show 🗑
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| show | an unreal exaggeration to emphasize the real situation
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| imagery | show 🗑
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| show | incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
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| show | a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem, for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.
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| show | use of an incorrect word in place of a similar-sounding word, which results in a nonsensical and humorous expression.
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| show | a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.
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| meter | show 🗑
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| show | substituting the name of a feature for the name of the thing
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| ode | show 🗑
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| onomatopoeia | show 🗑
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| show | a statement that contradicts itself
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| parallelism | show 🗑
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| show | a formal expression of praise
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| show | a literary work idealizing the rural life
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| show | attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
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| pathetic fallacy | show 🗑
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| show | Repetition of words of the same root, with different endings.
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| refrain | show 🗑
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| show | witty language used to convey insults or scorn
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| simile | show 🗑
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| soliloquy | show 🗑
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| show | a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
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| show | a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
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| show | using part of something to refer to the whole thing
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| enjambment | show 🗑
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| show | loud confusing disagreeable sounds
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