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| 530085049 | Allegory | ""Animal Farm", written by George Orwell, uses animals on a farm to describe the overthrow of the last of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and the Communist Revolution of Russia before WW II." | 0 | |
| 474202467 | Def of Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 1 | |
| 867671318 | Allusion | "The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora's box of crimes." "This place is like a Garden of Eden." | 2 | |
| 677484142 | Def of Allusion | a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. | 3 | |
| 401942975 | Ambiguity | "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness," "A good life depends on a liver." | 4 | |
| 665158929 | Def of Ambiguity | a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. | 5 | |
| 768466791 | Anapest | "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee." "Better dwell in the midst of alarms" | 6 | |
| 479135217 | Def of Anapest | a metrical foot in a line of a poem that contains three syllables wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed | 7 | |
| 770037310 | Anaphora | "This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings [. . .] This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land," "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair." | 8 | |
| 184831025 | Def of Anaphora | the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect | 9 | |
| 47981034 | Anastrophe | "Her mother is the lady of the house, And a good lady, and wise and virtuous. I nursed her daughter that you talked withal. I tell you, he that can lay hold of her, Shall have the chinks." "He spoke of times past and future, and dreamt of things to be." | 10 | |
| 47981035 | Def of Anastrophe | a literary technique in which the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter. (yoda talk) | 11 | |
| 508262153 | Anthropomorphism | "My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meaning nothing. My mother had a fondness for such; she liked to say them, and see other dogs look surprised and envious, as wondering how she got so much education.... When I was well grown, at last, I was sold and taken away, and I never saw her again. She was broken-hearted, and so was I, and we cried; but she comforted me as well as she could...." "But who runs like the rest past these arrives At a cage where the crowd stands, stares, mesmerized, As a child at a dream, at a dream, at a jaguar hurrying enraged Through prison darkness after the drills of his eyes" | 12 | |
| 474098368 | Def of Anthropomorphism | the act of lending a human quality, emotion or ambition to a non-human object or being. | 13 | |
| 398609975 | Antimetabole | "Eat to live, not live to eat."- Socrates "He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions." "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." | 14 | |
| 792039122 | Def of Antimetabole | repeating a phrase in reverse order. | 15 | |
| 598609103 | Aphorism | "Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability." -Sir Francs Bacon ""You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." ""If? There is no if. There is only what is. What was? What will be." | 16 | |
| 598609104 | Def of Aphorism | a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner. The term is often applied to philosophical, moral and literary principles. | 17 | |
| 531503945 | Apostrophe | "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." "Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness." "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." | 18 | |
| 652722965 | Def of Apostrophe | A writer or a speaker detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. | 19 | |
| 605976776 | Archetype | The Hero: He or she is a character who predominantly exhibits goodness and struggles against evil in order to restore harmony and justice to society | 20 | |
| 1024416806 | Def of Archetype | a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature. | 21 | |
| 881680467 | Aside | "Time thou anticipat'st my dread exploits. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it. From this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand." -Macbeth "A little more than kin, and less than kind." | 22 | |
| 1043093374 | Def of Aside | character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage. | 23 | |
| 947557953 | Asyndeton | IAGO Call up her father. Rouse him. Make after him, Poison his delight, Proclaim him in the streets. Incense her kinsmen, And, though he in a fertile climate dwell, (Othello by William Shakespeare) "This is the villain among you who deceived you, who cheated you, who meant to betray you completely......." (Rhetoric by Aristotle) | 24 | |
| 947557954 | Def of Asyndeton | It is a stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases and in the sentence, yet maintain the grammatical accuracy. | 25 | |
| 665886162 | Catharsis | "...a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing" "Here's to my love! [Drinks] O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. [Falls]" | 26 | |
| 563263558 | Def of Catharsis | the cleansing of emotions of the characters | 27 | |
| 593640476 | Def of Cinquain | a five-line stanza. | 28 | |
| 835293974 | Coincidence | a sequence of events that although accidental seems to have been planned or arranged. | 29 | |
| 1032597510 | Collective Subconcious | Carl Jung. | 30 |
