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Some of Each
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Give me the definition for Aphorism
A saying implying a truth Example: if life gives you lemons, make lemonade
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Give me an example for: Contrast
One example: A fish has fins and a duck has wings. Contrast means to compare to show differences.
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Guess the word from this definition: A point of view in writing when i or we is the narrator.
First Person point of View
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Give me a Synonym for Standard English
King's English, Queen's English, Received Pronunciation, Received Standard, correct English, good English
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Give me the definition for: iambic pentameter
a part in poetry with and un-rhymed line or unaccented syllable
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Give me the Definition for Consonance
The Similarity of sounds. Example: he struck a streak of bad luck.
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Give me an example for: Viewpoint
Viewpoint means to have a position in observation, or to be at a point in observation. one example: When you read and you picture everything that is going on in your head.
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Guess the word for: learning/preparing students for a career in writing.
Journalism
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Give me a synonym for antithesis
antipode, antipole, contra, contradictory, contrary, contrast, converse, counter, flip side, inverse, other side, reverse
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Give an example for: Stereotype
The cowboy and Indian are American stereotypes
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Give the Definition for World Literature
All the languages and way of writing in the world.
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Give me an example for: Being omniscient
She knew everything; she was omniscient
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Guess the word for this Definition: When a piece of writing is being told through the main characters point of view.
Second person point of view
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Give me a Synonym for: syntax
order, pattern, structure, system
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Give me the word for: a group of 2 or three syllables making a unit of poetic rhythm
What is metric feet
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Give me The definition for: Third person point of view
A point of view in writing whenever The narrator uses he or she to describe the story.
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Give me an example for: Oxymoron
Example: like when you are fasting, and someone mentions food.
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Guess the word for this Definition: Something That is Quoted
Quotation
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Give me a synonym for: Pathetic Fallacy
Talking to inanimate objects
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Give an example for: Scansion
One example from Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush": "I leant upon a coppice gate when Frost was spectre grey." . Read the line slowly and note where the stressed accents occur: . "I-leant-up-on-a-cop-pice-gate-when-Frost-was-spec-tre-grey."
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Give me the definition for: Symbolism
The practice of a person That uses symbols in art or Literature.
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Give me an Example for: Assonance
One example: The similarity of sounds, like dogs and hogs, or Jen and a hen
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Guess the word for this definition: To represent something with a symbol.
Symbolize
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Give me a synonym for synecdoche
adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device, comparison, conceit, device, echoism, ellipsis, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, oxymoron, parable, paradox, parallel, personification, proteron, rhetoric, sarcasm, satire, simile, synecdoche , trope, tropology, turn of phrase, understatement, way of speaking
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Give me a Synonym for archetype
What is classic exemplar, form, ideal, model, original, paradigm, pattern, perfect specimen, prime example, prototype, standard
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