Sizzling 70- Ap English, Part Two

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Personification

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Figurative language in which an inanimate objects animals ideas or abstractions are endowed with human traits or human form

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Allusion

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An indirect reference to something with which the reader is expected to be familiar

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Hubris

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Overwhelming pride or insolence that results in the misfortune of the protagonist of a tragedy

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Pathos

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Qualities of a fictional or non-fictional work that evokes sorrow or pity

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Connotation

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Rather than the dictionary definition the associations associated by a word. it is the implied meaning rather than literal meaning or denotation

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Euphemism

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The use of a word or phrase that is less direct but is also considered less distasteful or less offensive than another

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litotes

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Intensifies an idea understatement by stating through the opposite

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metonymy

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Designation of one thing with something closely associated with that

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Pun

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A play on words that are identical or similar and sound but have sharply different meanings

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Simile

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A figurative comparison of two things often dissimilar using the connecting words like, as, or than

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consonance

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Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in the close proximity

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euphony

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Agreeableness of sound

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cacophony

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Harsh discordance of sound

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caesura

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A break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse