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| 7003918374 | Allegory | A narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas. | 0 | |
| 7003918375 | Apostrophe | An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend | 1 | |
| 7003918376 | Characterization | How the author explains or develops the characters in a story. Can be done directly or indirectly | 2 | |
| 7003918377 | Emblem | A concrete object that represents something abstract; unlike a symbol, an emblem has a fixed meaning that does not vary in context | 3 | |
| 7003918378 | Magic Realism | Fiction which displays a mingling of the mundane with the fantastic, giving the narrative dual dimensions of realism and fantasy. One of its purposes is to draw attention to the fact that all narrative is an invention. The technique is mainly associated with South American writers, such as Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, but has also been used by writers such as the British Angela Carter, and the Anglo-Indian Salman Rushdie | 4 | |
| 7003918379 | Symbol | A symbol has two levels of meaning, a literal level and a figurative level. Characters, objects, events, and settings can all be symbolic in that they represent something else beyond themselves. The dove literally is a bird, but is has come to figuratively represent peace | 5 | |
| 7003918380 | Symbolism | The use of symbols to convey meaning | 6 | |
| 7003918381 | Abashed | Ashamed or embarrassed; disconcerted | 7 | |
| 7003918382 | Benignantly | Kind, especially to inferiors; gracious; | 8 | |
| 7003918383 | Discoursing | Communication of thought by words; talk; conversation | 9 | |
| 7003918384 | Scruples | A moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions | 10 | |
| 7003918385 | Hyperbole | Use of specific words and phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize the basic crux of the statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect | 11 | |
| 7003918386 | Irony | Words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that may end up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated. In simple words, it is a difference between the appearance and the reality. | 12 | |
| 7003918387 | Metaphor | Makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. In other words, a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common characteristics | 13 | |
| 7003918388 | Personification | A figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings | 14 |
