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| 67644110 | allusion | A reference to another work or famous figure is an allusion | |
| 67644111 | apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman, or absent | |
| 67644112 | aside | A speech (usually just a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage | |
| 67644113 | colloquialism | This is a word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school-book" English. For example, I'm toasted | |
| 67644114 | double entendre | An expression or term liable to more than one interpretation | |
| 67644115 | dramatic irony | When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not | |
| 67644116 | ellipsis | the omission of a word or words understood in the context | |
| 67644117 | epic | In a broad sense, an epic is simply a very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style | |
| 67644118 | euphemism | A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality | |
| 67644119 | foil | A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast | |
| 67644120 | foreshadow | An event or statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later | |
| 67644121 | hubris | The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall | |
| 67644122 | hyperbole | exaggeration or deliberate overstatement | |
| 67644123 | imagery | a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell | |
| 67644124 | juxtaposition | the act or instance of placing two things close together or side by side. This is often done in order to compare/contrast the two, to show similarities or differences, etc | |
| 67644125 | metaphor | metaphor is a comparison, or analogy that states on thing is another | |
| 67644126 | oxymoron | A phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction | |
| 67644127 | paradox | A situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not | |
| 67644128 | parallelism | Repeated syntactical similarities used for effect | |
| 67644129 | personification | When an inanimate object takes on human shape | |
| 67644130 | pun | usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest more meanings. | |
| 67644131 | repetition | a sound, a word, a phrase, a sentence, or a verse that is repeated. | |
| 67644132 | rhetorical question | a question asked for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | |
| 67644133 | simile | like a metaphor but softens the full out equations of things, often, but not always by using like or as | |
| 67644134 | soliloquy | A speech spoken by a character alone on stage; convey the impression that the audience is listening to the character's thoughts | |
| 67644135 | tragedy | a dramatic work that presents the downfall of a dignified character who is involved in historically or socially significant event | |
| 67644136 | tragic hero | potential for greatness but is doomed to fail. He/she is trapped in a situation where he/she cannot win. He/she makes some sort of tragic flaw, and this causes his/her fall from greatness. Even though he/she is a fallen hero, he/she still wins a moral victory, and his/her spirit lives on |
