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What is personification?
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A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form
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What is imagery?
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The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas
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What is alliteration?
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The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables
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What is assonance?
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The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants
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What is consonance?
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The repetition of consonants or of a consonant pattern, especially at the ends of words
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What is transcendentalism?
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asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition
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What is self-reliance?
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Reliance on one's own capabilities, judgment, or resources; independence
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What is a satire?
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Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity
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