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Grammar
100
Indirect reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing.
What is allusion?
100
Novels written in letter form
What is epistle?
100
Euphemism
A substitution for an expression thought to be offensive or harsh.
100
A(n) _______ is so because he is lying, insance, mentally challenged, or young in age
unreliable narrator
100
Exaggeration, overstatement, magnification
Understatement
200
The repeating of accented vowels in a group of words.
What is assonance?
200
"In the midst" - starting in the middle of the story
What is in media res?
200
Comparison between two things for the purpose of explanation
analogy
200
Bradley Neal - yell-ready (using letters to make different words)
anagram
200
Fact, history, narrative
Allegory
300
Repetition of a word or phrase for effect
What is anaphora?
300
Multi-leveled symbolism in a fiction work
What is allegory?
300
analogy
A short personal story/account - good for intros in papers and speeches
300
Bildungsroman
Coming of age story
300
Discord, difference
Consonance
400
When words in a statement contradict each other.
What is paradox?
400
An annual publication including information such as weather forecasts, planting dates, aphorisms
What is almanac?
400
The ideal prototype or example
archetype
400
Indirect, circulatory speech - using more words than necessary
periphrasis
500
Two syllables followed by a long syllable (AshleANNE)
What is anapest?
500
The moment in a play or work where the main character (usually) makes a critical discovery ("Aha!")
What is anagnorisis?
500
Beat the Bulldogs with better ball bearing
alliteration
500
Hint, suggestion, implication - What the term makes you "think of"
Connotation
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