Lesson 1
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78319271 | imagery | drawing a picture with words | |
78319272 | euphemism | substituting a mild word or phrase for a harsh one | |
78319273 | metonymy | substituting a related term for an idea at hand | |
78319274 | metaphor | implied analogy | |
78319275 | emotive imagery | imagery designed to induce an emotion in the reader | |
78319276 | dramatic monologue | a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himself or herself and the dramatic situation | |
78319277 | paradox | an apparently self-contradictory statement which is true | |
78319278 | onomatopoeia | words whose sounds mimic the sound of the thing being named | |
78319279 | understatement | verbal irony reporting things a less important that they really are | |
78319280 | kenning | an OE compound word or phrase used to rename a common noun | |
78319281 | allusion | a reference to literature or history | |
78319282 | personification | human characteristics portrayed in non-humans | |
78319283 | apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | |
78319284 | litotes | ironical understatement that affirms something by stating the negative | |
78319285 | synecdoche | figure of speech where part of something stands for the whole |