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Non-human objects, animals, or abstract concepts are given human qualities or characteristics, as if they have human traits, emotions, or behaviors.
Personification
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Tells us who is telling the story, who is narrating the story. It is either told through their personal experience or someone's else experience.
Point-of-view
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an author or speaker intentionally uses exaggeration and overstatement for emphasis and effect.
Hyperbole
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“Passed away” instead of “died”
“Let go” instead of “fired”
“Under the weather” instead of “sick”
euphemism
A word or phrase that softens an uncomfortable topic.
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-A fire station burns down
-Police station gets robbed
-Marriage counselor files for divorce
-Pilot has a fear of heights
Irony
When a moment of dialogue or plot contradicts what was expected to happen.
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refers to the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story.
Mood
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The author’s attitude toward a certain topic.
Tone
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A poem normally of fourteen lines in any of several fixed verse and rhyme schemes, typically in rhymed iambic pentamete
Sonnet
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"Y'all are gonna wanna see the wicked test Hank is doing"
Diction
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
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-Ivan the Terrible
-Wine-dark sea
-Gray-eyed Athena
Epithet
An adjective or phrase that is used to express a characteristic of a person or thing
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A question asked for the dramatic effect that isn't in need of an answer
rhetorical question
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Designed to imitate or mock it’s subject my means of comedy usually through satire or irony. They can often be about a real-life person, event, or subject.
parody
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The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Satire
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"Don't act like a Scrooge"
Allusion
A reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text
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-South park
-The Three Stooges
-Hangover
Farce
A type of comedy, mainly used in dramas and also has exaggeration
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A situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.
paradox
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When you place two concepts or objects next to or near each other, thereby highlighting their innate differences and similarities
juxtaposition
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A group of words that directly contradict each other but are still used in the same phrase/sentence
oxymoron
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Fair is foul and foul is fair
She has all my love; my heart is hers
Chiasmus
A repetition of similar ideas in the reversed sequence
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-A red rose is a symbol of love and cozy
-A red rose is a flower bore by a thorny shrub
Connotation/denotation
Connotation is the emotional and imaginative association surrounding a word, while denotation is the strict dictionary meaning of a word
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The name of an object or concept is replaced with a word closely related to or suggested by the original
metonymy
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A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Synecdoche
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A narrative story used to convey an abstract message.
allegory
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- "O Captain, My Captain" by Walt Whitman.
- "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Housman.
- "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," by Thomas Gray.
Elegely
a form of poetry in which the poet or speaker expresses grief, sadness, or loss
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"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
"Blow winds, blow!"
Apostrophe
a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object