Literary Terms

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Foreshadowing

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to indicate or suggest something, usually something unpleasant, that is going to happen

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Hyperbole

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deliberate and obvious exaggeration used for effect

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Irony

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a situation, or the irony arising from a situation, in which the audience has a fuller knowledge of what is happening in a drama than a character does

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Allusion

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the act of making an indirect reference to somebody or something

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Personification

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the attribution of human qualities to objects or abstract notions

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Paradox

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a statement, proposition, or situation that seems to be absurd or contradictory, but in fact is or may be true

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Onomatopoeia

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the formation or use of words that imitate the sound associated with something

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Simile

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a figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different things, especially a phrase containing the word "like" or "as

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Alliteration

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a poetic or literary effect achieved by using several words that begin with the same or similar consonants

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Aside

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a remark made by an actor, usually to the audience, that the other characters on stage supposedly cannot hear

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Soliloquy

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the act of speaking while alone, especially when used as a theatrical device that allows a character's thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience

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Metaphor

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all language that involves figures of speech or symbolism and does not literally represent real things

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Apostrophe

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a rhetorical passage in which an absent or imaginary person or an abstract or inanimate entity is addressed directly

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Metonymy

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a figure of speech in which an attribute of something is used to stand for the thing itself