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Ode |
a lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and sometimes uses elaborate stanza structure, which is often patterned in sets of three. Odes are written to praise and exalt a person, characteristic, quality or object, |
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Omniscient point of view |
also called unlimited focus: a perspective that can be seen from one character's view, then another's, then another's, or can be moved in or out of the mind of any character at any time. The reader has access to the perceptions and thoughts of all the characters in the story. |
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Onomatopoeia |
a word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes; |
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Overstatement |
exaggerated language |
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Oxymoron |
a figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements, sometimes resulting in a humorous image or statement |
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Parable |
a short fiction that illustrates an explicit moral lesson through the use of analogy |
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Paradox |
a statement that seems contradictory but may actually be true. |
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Parallel structure |
the use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts |
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Parody |
a work that imitates another work for comic effect by exaggerating the style and changing the content of the original |
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Pastoral |
a work (also called an ecologue, a bucolic, or an idyll) that describes the simple life of country folk, usually shepherds who live a timeless, painless (and sheepless) life in a world full of beauty, music, and love. |
