using another person's idea or words without giving them credit | ||
a break, a sense clause in the middle of a verse | ||
a logical error that weakens an argument | ||
an extended comparison | ||
the correspondance of consenants especially at the end of a word | ||
examination of similarities and differences | ||
discord of action, feeling or effect | ||
condensation in one's own words of a work | ||
figure of speech saying one thing without like/as | ||
unrhymed dynamic contaminer verse | ||
resemblance of sounds | ||
connective tissue among sentences | ||
person opposed to/struggles or competes with another | ||
commencmenet of two or more words with the same letter | ||
representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning | ||
sorting and creating subgroups | ||
writing that proves a point | ||
figure of speech which uses like/as | ||
lack of emphasis in a statement or point | ||
use of an aspect of something rather than the whole | ||
figure of speech where opposite of what is said is meant | ||
exxageration for emphasis | ||
assigning llifelike characteristics to inanimate objects | ||
parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | ||
philosophy of intuitive spirit | ||
another name for Elizabethan Sonnet | ||
Italian sonnet | ||
an ironic, sarcastic or witty composition | ||
romantic | ||
thought regarded as...interior monologue | ||
the act of talking as if alone | ||
something used for or regarding something else | ||
statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | ||
piece that exxagerate, imitates the real effect | ||
figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms | ||
interest or concern for the actual or real | ||
the act or habit of using words inappropriately | ||
statement or quality of feeling at particular time | ||
rhyme created by two or more words in same line | ||
view of human life in a negative view | ||
formation of normal images | ||
distinctive sometimes pictauresque representations in drama | ||
a sentene or groups of sentences that announces thesis | ||
the readers | ||
a pair of successive rhymes of verse | ||
final outcome | ||
a single character gives speech to audience at a critical point | ||
writing that explains | ||
teaching or intending to teach a lesson | ||
analysis...effects are considered | ||
main idea in a piece of writing | ||
running on of a line from one stanza to next | ||
explaining how to view something, how others do it | ||
any witty, ingenious, or pointed statement | ||
commemoritive inscription | ||
word choice | ||
angle from which writer sees her subject | ||
rephrasing into ones own words | ||
any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe its qualities | ||
class or category | ||
excessive pride, self confidence | ||
speech or writing departed from literal meaning in order to achieve special effect or meaning | ||
seem better for contrast | ||
formation of words by sounds | ||
passing or casual reference | ||
assertation of something as fact | ||
an illustration or example | ||
to show or indicate something in the future | ||
using language effectively | ||
authors words, way author uses language to achieve certain effects | ||
means of creating an attitude or mood | ||
the sentence in which the writer states the main idea | ||
understood by audience, not characters | ||
opposite of what is thought to happen happens |
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