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Allegory
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the device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning
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Atmosphere
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the emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described.
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Exposition
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In essays, one of the for chief types of composition, the others being argumentation, description, and naration. Purpose- to explain something
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Invective
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An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language
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Parallelism
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[(parallel construction pr parallel structure) term coming from greek meaning, beside one another] it refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structual similarity
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Rhetoric
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from the Greek for " orator" this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuauively
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Syntax
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the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences
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