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Define Allegory.
What is a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another? Example: Say you were reading a story about a husband and wife and the wife's name happens to be Faith. Now if in the story the husband is questioning his religion and his relationship with his wife is faltering, it is allegorical because his wife's name is symbolic of both his loss in religious belief and loss in "Faith" aka his wife
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This is an unconscious process of expanding and embellishing a detail.
What is elaboration? Example: I found a key. (elaborated) I found a big golden key.
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Same meaning as these: accord, melody, rhythm
What is Euphony? Definition:agreeableness of sound; pleasing effect to the ear, especially a pleasant sounding or harmonious combination or succession of words. Example:Silence and stealth of days!
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Example: this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
What is epistrophe? Definition: the repetition of a word or words at the end of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.
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Opposite of: literally, word for word
What is metonym? Definition:a word used in metonymy. Example: the bottle is an acoholic beverage.
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Define Flashback.
What is a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work? Example: Sean though back to when he was a child, and the scene changes to so.
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This is a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea.
What is Apostrophe? Example: "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky."
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Same meaning as these: adage, banality, boiler plate
What is cliche? Definition: an overused phrase. Example: The guy saves the girl and they hookup.
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Example: The father: Stern, powerful, controlling
What is archetype? Definition: a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc.
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Opposite of: monologue, soliloquy
What is dialogue? Definition: The lines a character recites in a story or other event. Example: Mrs. Hackney, "wow Sean you deserve an A"
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Define Ballad
What is any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody? Example: Elvis' life.
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This is a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases.
What is Chiasmus? Example: A hard man is good to find
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Same meaning as these: adventure, chronicle, epic
What is saga? Definition: any narrative or legend of heroic exploits. Example: The Odyssey
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Example: if noone els do it for your self so much you won't do you will get thur just BE TURE TO YOU
What is prose? Definition: the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
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Opposite of: concealment, suppression
What is narration? Definition: a recital of events. Example: Looking back on a childhood filled with events and memories...
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Define Plot.
What is a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose? Example: A good guy thwarts a bad guy's plan.
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This is the overall emtotions emmitted from a passage, story, etc.
What is tone? Example: The tone of the passage was dark and depressing.
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Same meaning as these: accord, chime, chorus
What is consonance? Definition: Repition of Constanants Example:Litter and batter Spelled and scald Laughed and deft Dress and boss Slither and lather
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Example: A book about someones past and experiences
What is memoir? Definition: Someone writting about past experiences and about remembering those events.
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Opposite of: aid, help
What is foil? Definition: ruin someone. Example: The bad guy foiled the good guy when he took away his powers.
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Define Oxymoron.
What is two opposite words formed into one? Example: bitter-sweet.
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This is a complex 10-lined poems system used by Shakespeare.
What is sonnet? Example: FROM fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
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Same meaning as these: adumbration, allegory, alliteration
What is litotes? Definition:understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary. Example: Not bad at all.
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Example: Roger has been tracking the increase in natural gas prices on the Web. He decided that he'd like to exchange some shares out of the Blue Chip Fund in his retirement account into a mutual fund that specializes in natural gas. Having researched natural gas on the Web, Roger feels that the Specialty Natural Gas Fund is safe and this would be a great time to purchase the fund.
What is scenario? Definition: The laid out events given before you to set up the actual plot.
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Opposite of: serious, no play on words
What is pun? Definition: Example:
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