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Enjambment

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It can be defined as a thought or sense, phrase or clause in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break but moves over to the next line.

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Aporia

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Aporia is a figure of speech wherein a speaker purports or expresses to be in doubt or in perplexity regarding a question (often feigned) and asks the audience how he/she ought to proceed.

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Conceit

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Conceit is a figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors.

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Elicit Emotion

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Very emotive language

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Antagonist

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In literature, an antagonist is a character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist or the main character. The term antagonist comes from Greek word “antagonists” that means opponent, competitor or rival.

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Hyperbole

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Hyperbole, derived from a Greek word meaning “over-casting” is a figure of speech, which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. It is a device that we employ in our day-to-day speech

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Alliteration

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It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series

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Allegory

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Allegory is a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures and events
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Ambiguity

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Ambiguity or fallacy of ambiguity is a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning.

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Anadiplosis

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It refers to the repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause.

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Allusion

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Allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.

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Antithesis

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Antithesis, literal meaning opposite, is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.
•Man proposes, God disposes.
•Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.

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Bathos

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Bathos is when a writer or a poet falls into inconsequential and absurd metaphors, descriptions or ideas in an effort to be increasingly emotional or passionate. Some confuse with pathos

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Blank Verse

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Blank verse is a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written

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Cadence

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It is the term used to signal the rising and falling of the voice when reading a literary piece.

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Euphemism

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The term euphemism refers to polite, indirect expressions which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant.

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Oxymoron

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Oxymoron, plural oxymora, is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect
•Tragic comedy
•Seriously funny

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Poetic Justice

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In literature, poetic justice is an ideal form of justice in which the good characters are rewarded and the bad characters are punished by an ironic twist of their fate.

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Free Verse

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Free verse is a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms

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Parallelism

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Parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter
•Like father, like son.

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Meiosis

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The word meiosis originated from the Greek word “meioo” that means “to diminish” or “to make smaller”.

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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Self-fulfilling prophecy is defined as any expectation, positive or negative, about a situation or event that affects an individual behaviour in such a manner that it causes that expectation to be fulfilled.

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Invective

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The term invective denotes speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution

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Syllogism

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Syllogism is a rhetorical device that starts an argument with a reference to something general and from this it draws conclusion about something more specific.

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Pun

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A pun is a play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings.