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ABSTRACTIONS |
a term that is applied to ideas that are philosophical and emotional, not concrete or tangible, yet the idea comes from experience.
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Relates to a feeling |
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ALLEGORY |
a story with (count 'em) two levels of meaning. First, there's the surface of the story. You know, the characters and plot and all that obvious stuff. Then there's the symbolic level, or the deeper meaning that all the jazz on the surface represents
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Dig a little deeper |
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ALLUSION |
a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers.
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Glimpse of something not the full detail |
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ANALYSIS OF A PROCESS |
a method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something.
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Think of a cooking show |
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ANAPEST |
a poetic device defined as a metrical foot in a line of a poem that contains three syllables wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed as given in this line “I must finish my journey alone.”
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stressful syllables |
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ANECDOTAL NARRATIVE |
short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point and make readers and listeners laugh.
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Mini fun story |
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ANTECEDENT |
an earlier clause, phrase or word to which a pronoun, another word or a noun refers back to.
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defines a saying or phrase |
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ANTICLIMAX |
It is when at a specific point, expectations are raised, everything is built-up and then suddenly something boring or disappointing happens; this is an anti-climax. Besides that, the order of statements gradually descends in anti-climax.
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Excited for nothing |
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APOSTROPHE |
a rhetorical device used by playwrights and authors whenever their characters address a character that isn’t present in the scene.
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includes people who are not in the story |
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BALLAD METER |
a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem
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da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM |
