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| 23976740 | parallelism | the use of similar gramatical structures or word order | |
| 23976741 | Personification | The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas. | |
| 23976742 | narrator | storyteller | |
| 23976743 | point of view | the perspective that a narrator takes toward the events it describes | |
| 23976744 | apostrophe | the direct address to an absent or dead person, or to an object, quality, or idea. | |
| 23976745 | cliche | an expression that has been used so frequently it has lost its expressive power. | |
| 23976746 | conceit | an elaborate parallel between two seemingly dissimilar objects. | |
| 23976747 | hyperbole | a rhetorical figure in which emphasis is acheived through exaggeration | |
| 23976748 | Euphony | A combination of pleasant words | |
| 23976749 | Anaphora | the regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of two or more successive phrases or clauses. | |
| 23976750 | Anastrophe | a rhetorical term for the inversion of the normal order of the parts of a sentence. | |
| 23976751 | Paradox | a statement or expression so surprisingly self-contradictory as to provoke us into seeking another | |
| 23976752 | Protagonist | The central character in a story. | |
| 23976753 | Plot | The careful arrangement by an author of incidents in a narrative to achieve a desired effect. | |
| 23976754 | metonymy | the substitution of one term for another that is generally associated with it | |
| 23976755 | onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like a noise | |
| 23976756 | metaphor | figurative language that describes something as though it actually were something else | |
| 23976757 | pun | a witty word-play which reveals that words with different meanings have similar or even identical sounds. | |
| 23976791 | rhetoric | the art of persuasive writing; broadly, the art of all effective writing. | |
| 23976805 | satire | writing that ridicules or holds up to contempt the faults of individuals or groups |
