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accent
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stressed part of a word
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allegory
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extended narrative in which characters/events/settings represent abstract with a second, underlying meaning
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The Chronicles of Narnia, Pilgrim's Progress, Animal Farm, ____ of the Cave
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alliteration
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repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words close to one another
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Spiro Agnew's alarming alliterative allegations, like "nattering nabobs of negativism"
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allusion
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reference to another work/person well known enough to be recognised
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AKA reference
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anachronism
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event/custom/object/person/thing out of order in time, whether deliberate or unintentional
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when an actor of Shakespeare forgets to take off his watch
Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" |
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analogy
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comparison of two similar but different things to clarify a relationship/action
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heart:pump
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anecdote
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short, simple narrative of an incident
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a story you'd tell to tell to entertain friends
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aphorism
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short, witty statement of a truth/principle about life
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"A penny saved is a penny earned"
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apostrophe
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in poetry/prose, calls out to an imaginary/dead/absent person/place/thing/abstraction to begin/make a dramatic break in thought
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aside
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a brief speech/comment an actor makes to the audience without the other characters hearing. for melodramatic/comedic effect
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not a soliloquy
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assonance
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repetition of vowels sounds
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neigh/fade
Esther Creswell |
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ballad
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long narrative poem presenting a single dramatic episode, often tragic/violent
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two types: folk and literary, one passed down orally in song as part of a cultural tradition, the other for art to imitate the original kind
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blank verse
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poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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favourite form used by shakespeare
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burlesque
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broad parody of an entire style/form that exaggerates it into ridiculousness
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cacophony
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harsh/awkward/dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry/prose
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opposite of euphony
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caricature
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descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature/facet of appearance/personality
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catharsis
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emotional release an audience experiences from watching a tragedy
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chorus
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group of characters in Greek drama who comment on the action
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classicism
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principles/styles admired in classic Greek/Roman literature, like objectivity/sensibility/restraint/formality
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colloquialism
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word/phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing
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AKA vernacular
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conceit
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an elaborate figure of speech in which 2 seemingly dissimilar things/situations are compared
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consonance
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repetition of consonant sounds before and after vowels
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boost/best
fulfill ping-pong |
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conundrum
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riddle with a pun for an answer
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paradox, difficult problem
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description
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picturing in words of something/one through detailed images of color/motion/sound/taste/smell/touch
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1 of the 4 modes of discourse
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diction
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word choice
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AKA syntax
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discourse
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spoken/written language such as literary works
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4 modes of it: description, exposition, narration, persuasion
remember: "pendex" |
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dissonance
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grating/harsh sounds or sounds that don't go together
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AKA cacophony
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elegy
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formal poem on death/mortality often begun by someone's recent death
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end rhyme
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rhyme that comes at the end of lines of poetry
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epic
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long narrative poem about a serious/profound subject in dignified style. usually has heroic characters, legendary deeds
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the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" by Homer
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epigram
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conscise, witty saying in poetry/prose that stands alone/is part of a larger work. OR a type of short poem
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similar to aphorism
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euphony
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succession of harmonious sounds in poetry/prose
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opposite of cacophony/dissonance
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exemplum
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brief tale used in medieval times to illustrate a sermon/teach a lesson
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the Parson's tale in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
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exposition
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immediate revelation to audience of setting/background info needed to understand the plot
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1 of 4 modes of discourse
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farce
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light, dramatic composition characterized by broad satirical comedy & improbable plot
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similar to parody, burlesque, caricature, satire
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figurative language
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devices used to create associations that are imaginative, not literal
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contains figures of speech (like similes, metaphors, personifications)
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foil
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character who, by contrast, highlights the characteristics of another character
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folklore
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traditional stories/songs/dances/customspreserved among a people. usually precedes literature, passed down orally thru generations until scholars record it
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foot
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combination of stressed & unstressed syllables that makes up the basic rythmic unit of poetry
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common ones:
i-AMB TRO-chee dact-yl-(Y) ana-PEST SPON-DEE |
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foreshadowing
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hint/clue to suggest a larger event occurring later in the work
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free verse
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poetry written w/out regular meter & usually w/out ryhme
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not to be confused with blank verse
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genre
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type of literary work
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novel
poem sub___s: science fiction novel, sonnet |
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gothic
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type of novel from the 1700s using mystery, suspense, & sensational/supernatural occurrences to evoke terror
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hubris
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excessive pride/ambition leading a tragic hero to warning of doom, causing their downfall
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a common tragic flaw
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humor
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causes laughter/amusement OR a term temperament (before end of renaissance)
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hahahaha
black bile-melancholy yellow bile-choleric phlegm-phlegmatic blood-sanguine |
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hyperbole
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deliberate exaggeration for humor/emphasis
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idyll
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short descriptive narrative/poem about idealized country life
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AKA pastoral
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imagery
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words/phrases appealing to a/the sense(s) to create a mental picture
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interior monologue
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writing recording the conversation occurring in a character's head
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internal rhyme
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rhyme occurring w/in a line of poetry
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Poe's "The Raven"
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door |
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inversion
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reversing the customary order of elements in a sentence/phrase
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-when posing a question
-in bad poetry |
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irony
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situation/statement in which the actual outcome/meaning is opposite to what's expected
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loose sentence
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sentence that's grammatically complete before it ends
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"She played the violin(.) with intensity...."
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lyric
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type of melodious, imaginative, subjective poetry usually short & personal & expressing a speaker's thoughts/feelings, no t a story
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metaphor
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one thing is referred to as another
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a figure of speech
"my love is a fragile flower" |
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meter
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repetition of a regular rythmic unit in a line of poetry
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see foot
three feet=trimeter six feet=hexameter etc. |
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metonymy
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uses the name of an object/person/idea to represent something with which it's associated
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a figure of speech
the monarch-"the crown" |
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mode
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method/form of a literary work OR manner in which a lit work is written
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mood
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primary emotional attitude of a work
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similar to tone
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myth
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a story that once served to explain the orign of life/religous beliefs/forces of nature as supernatural occurrences. in a system of narratives set in an imaginary world.
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narration
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telling a story in fiction/onofiction/poetry/drama
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1 of the 4 modes of discourse
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naturalism
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literary movement that grew of of realism in France/US/England in the late 1800s/early 1900s. portrays humans as having no free will, driven by natural forces of heredity/environment/animalistic urges over which they have no control
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"The Awakening"
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objectivity
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impersonal presentation of events/characters
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ode
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long lyric poem, usually w/ serious/elevated tone & written to praise someone/thing
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onomatopoeia
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use of words that sound like what they mean
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hiss
boom |
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oxymoron
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composed of contradictory words/phrases
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a figure of speech
a wise fool |
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parable
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short tale that teaches a moral
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Aesop's ____
Jesus had them too. shorter than an allegory, but similar |
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paradox
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statement that seems to contradict itself but turns out to have rational meaning
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Thoreau- "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
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parallelism
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technique of arranging words/phrase/clauses/larger structures by placing them side by side & making them similar in form
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parody
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work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating & exaggerating its elements
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done to a SPECIFIC work, not an entire genre/style
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periodic sentence
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sentence that is not complete until its last phrase
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"Despite his hatred.........he still cared."
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personification
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attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman/inanimate object
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a figure of speech
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