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| 7468533016 | Allusion | An indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place, or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand. (historic, literary, religious, mythical) Examples: -Captain Beatty in Fahrenheit 451 references the biblical story about The Tower of Babel. -To call someone Romeo, references to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" | 0 | |
| 7468554009 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of a key word, especially the last one, at the beginning of the next sentence or clause. Examples: - "He gave his life; life was all he could give." - "....you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love" ( The Bible, II Peter 1:5 - 7) | 1 | |
| 7468577912 | Analogy | Comparing of similar things, often to explain something unfamiliar with something familiar. Examples: -The branching of a river system is often explained using a tree and its branches -An atom looks like the solar system; the nucleus is the sun and the electrons are planets | 2 | |
| 7468592152 | Apostrophe | A rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an inanimate object or abstraction. Examples: -Hamlet has a conversation with a skull -"Then come sweet death, and rid me of this grief" from Edward II, Marlowe | 3 | |
| 7468603312 | Cliche | An overused, worn out, hackneyed expression that used to be fresh but is no more. Examples: -"Blushing bride" or "clinging vines" are used to describe people. -Others could be "dead as a door nail" and "like a kid in a candy store" | 4 |
