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propaganda
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information, ideas, or rumours deliberatly spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, etc.
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alliteration
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the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter
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foreshadowing
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to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: political upheavals
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connotation
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the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning
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similie
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a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared
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fable
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a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inatimate objects as charecters; apologe
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dramatic irony
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irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the charecters in the play
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situational irony
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an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected to happen and what actually does
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stereotype
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sociology. a simplified and standardizzed conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group
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allegory
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a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under guise of another
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allusion
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a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication
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denotation
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the explicitor direct meaning or set of meanings associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicts for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicted for any individual speaker because of personal experience
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metaphor
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a figure of speech in which a tem or phrase is applied to something to which is not literally applicable in order to suggest resemblance
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foils
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to prevent the success of; frustrate; balk
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verbal irony
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a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
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satire
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the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, ot deriding vice, folly, etc.
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