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| use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | ||
| a reference to another work of literature, person, or event | ||
| the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance | ||
| a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction | ||
| the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | ||
| the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words | ||
| the manner in which something is expressed in words | ||
| expressions, such as similes, metaphors, and personifications, that make imaginative, rather than literal, comparisons or associations. | ||
| the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot | ||
| a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | ||
| incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs | ||
| a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | ||
| the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama | ||
| using words that imitate the sound they denote | ||
| conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | ||
| a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | ||
| representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature, a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics | ||
| the vantage point from which a story is told | ||
| the principal character in a work of fiction | ||
| a humorous play on words, a play on words involving the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings (collar, color), words with 2+ meanings (plain), or words with the same sound but different meanings (sun/son) | ||
| repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device | ||
| be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable | ||
| the context and environment in which something is set | ||
| a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') | ||
| something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | ||
| substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa | ||
| substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') | ||
| the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences | ||
| a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work | ||
| the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author | ||
| understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) | ||
| a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite (describing a particularly horrific scene by saying, "It was not a pretty picture.") |
