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| 6319374213 | EPANALEPSIS | device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence. Voltaire: "Common sense is not so common." | 0 | |
| 6319377197 | EPIGRAPH | a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme. | 1 | |
| 6319379624 | EPISTROPHE | device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences (it is the opposite of anaphora). | 2 | |
| 6319381399 | EXPLICATION | act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language. | 3 | |
| 6319383302 | HYPOTACTIC | sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them. (Use of such syntactic subordination of just one clause to another is known as hypotaxis). I am tired because it is hot. | 4 | |
| 6319386906 | VERBAL IRONY | occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else. | 5 | |
| 6319388470 | SITUATIONAL IRONY | takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen. | 6 | |
| 6319390059 | DRAMATIC IRONY | is so called because it is often used on stage. A character in the play or story thinks one thing is true, but the audience or reader knows better. | 7 | |
| 6319392326 | LITOTES | is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form: Hawthorne--- "...the wearers of petticoat and farthingale...stepping forth into the public ways, and wedging their not unsubstantial persons, if occasion were, into the throng..." | 8 | |
| 6319395795 | IMPLIED METAPHOR | does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison: "I like to see it lap the miles" is an implied metaphor in which the verb lap implies a comparison between "it" and some animal that "laps" up water. | 9 | |
| 6319398387 | EXTENDED METAPHOR | is a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it. (conceit if it is quite elaborate). | 10 | |
| 6319401281 | DEAD METAPHOR | is a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid: "The head of the house", "the seat of the government", "a knotty problem" are all dead metaphors. | 11 | |
| 6319403699 | MIXED METAPHOR | is a metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible. "The CEO of the company is a lame duck who is running out of gas." | 12 | |
| 6321578108 | PARATACTIC SENTENCE | simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences. I am tired: it is hot REFRAIN: a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem. | 13 | |
| 6321582898 | SYNTACTIC PERMUTATION | sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved. Often difficult for a reader to follow. | 14 | |
| 6321585154 | VERNACULAR | the language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality. | 15 |
