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| a literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions | ||
| a detail, image, or character that occurs in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response from the reader | ||
| the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers | ||
| a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | ||
| a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed "Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary." | ||
| a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | ||
| a situation that requires a person to decide between two equaly attractive or equally unattractive alternatives | ||
| a formal poem presenting a meditation on death or another solemn theme | ||
| an inscription on a tombstone or burial place | ||
| a term used to point out a characteristic of a person sometimes used in connection with a person or god's name ex. swift-footed Achilles ex. gray-eyed goddess for Athena | ||
| an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | ||
| a breif story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters | ||
| a character who embodies a single quality and does not develop in the course of the work | ||
| excessive pride or arragance that results in the downfall of the protagonist in tragedy---most common tragic flaw | ||
| a conclustion one draws based on premises or evidence; information drawn from reading between the lines | ||
| intensely vehement, high emotional verbal attack | ||
| placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast | ||
| a narrator who presents the story as it is seen and understood by a single character, restricting information to what is seen, heard, thought, or felt by that one character | ||
| a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite. e. g. describing a ghastly scene by saying, "It was not a pretty picture." | ||
| a concise statement, often offering advice; an adage | ||
| substituting the name of an object for another object or person closely associated with it. "The pen (writing) is mightier than the sword (warfare)" | ||
| a word formed from the imitation of natural sounds ex. "whoosh" | ||
| a humorous imitation of a serious work | ||
| the quality in a work that prompts the reader to feel pity | ||
| the use, for rhetorical effect, of more ocnjunctions that is necessary or natural | ||
| a character who demonstrates some complexity and who changes or develops in the course of a work | ||
| a person or group who bears the blame for another | ||
| an artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by the lack of conscious control. | ||
| a construction in which one word is used in two different senses. "After he threw the ball, he threw a fit." | ||
| using one part of an object to represent the entire object i. e., referring to a car as "wheels." | ||
| describing one kind of sensation in terms of another-- ex. "a loud color" " a sweet sound" | ||
| the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude that it actually is: a deliberate under-emphasis | ||
| a play on words, often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings |
