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Abstract
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An abbreviated synopsis of a longer work of scholarship or research
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Adage
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A saying or proverb containing a truth base don experience and often couched in metaphorical language
Ex) Don't count your chickens before they hatch. |
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allegory
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a story in which the narrative or characters carry an underlying symbolic, metaphorical, or possibly an ethical meaning.
Ex) In works such a Spenser's the Faerie Queen and Bunyon's Pilgrim's Progress, the story and characters represent values beyond themselves. |
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Alliteration
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The repetition of one or more initial consonants in a group of words or lines of poetry or prose. Writers use alliteration for ornament or for emphasis, as in words such as flim-flam and tittle-tattle. Also epithets (any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality) (fickle fortune, sunless sea), phrases (bed and board), and slogans (looks before you leap). Alliteration generally enhances the aesthetic quality of a prose passage or poem, as in these line's from Coleridge's "Rime of an Ancient Mariner": the white foam flew/ the furrow follows free."
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Allusion
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A reference to a person, place, or event meant to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea.
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Ambiguity
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a vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretations
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Anachronism
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A person, scene, event, or other element in literature that fails to correspond with the time or era in which the work is set
Ex) to assign Michelangelo to the 14th Century |
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Analogy
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A comparison that points out similarities between two dissimilar things
ex) "Memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup." (Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris, 1949) |
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Annotation
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A brief explanation, summary, or evaluation of a test or work of literature
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