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abstract language
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language desciribing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific persons, places or things
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ideas and qualities
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allegory
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a story, fictional or nonfiction, in which characters, thanks and events represent qualities or concepts
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fiction or nonfiction
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alliteration
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repetition of initial identical consonant sounds
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repetition
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allusion
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an indirect reference to something with which the reader is supposed to be falimar with
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something reader's familiar with
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anecdote
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a brief recounting of a relevant episode
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relevant episode
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diction
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word choice as an element of style
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element of style
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figurative language
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a word or words that are inaccuratly literally, but describe by calling to mind sensations or responses that the thing described evokes
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sensations
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hyperbole
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consious exaggeration used to heighten effect
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heighten
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imagery
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used to create a strong unified sensory impression
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sensory
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inversion
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variation of the normal word orfer
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variation
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irony
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when a reader is aware of a reality that differs from a character's perception of reality
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reality differs
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metaphore
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a comparisson of two things often unrelated
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comparrison
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mood
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an atmosphere created by a writer's diction
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atmosphere
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non-sequitor
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when a statement is not logically connected to another
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logically connected
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objectivity
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a writer's attempt to remove him/herself from any subjective personal involvement in the story
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remove him/herself
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onomatopoeia
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the use of a word whose pronunciation suggests its meaning
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crash, boom, bang
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oversimplification
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when a writer obscures or denies the complexity of the issue in an argument
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denies complexity
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oxymoron
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a rhetorical anithesis. Juxaposing two controdictory terms
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juxaposing
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paradox
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a seemingly contradictory statement which is actually true
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seeminly contradictory
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paralellism
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sentence construction of two or more gramatical simmilarities
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grammatical simmilatirites
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parody
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an exaggeration imitation of a serious work for humourous purposes
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exageration
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pathos
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qualities of a work that evoke sorrow or pity
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evoke sorrow
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persona
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adopting a fictional voice to tell the story
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fictional voice
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personification
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imaminate objects, animals, ideas, or abstractions are endowed with human traits or human form
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endowed with human traits
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point of view
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perspective from which a story is told
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perspective
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